Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Verse 7. There were only seven tribes that had still to receive their portions; for the
tribe of Levi was to receive no portion in the land (vid., ch. 13-14), and Gad, Reuben,
and half Manasseh had received their inheritance already on the other side of the
Jordan.
Verse 8-9. Execution of this command.
Verse 10. Joshua finishes the casting of the lots at Shiloh.
Joshua 18:11-28
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their
families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and
the children of Joseph.
Inheritance of the Tribe of Benjamin. - Vv. 11-20. Boundaries of the inheritance. - V.
11. The territory of their lot (i.e., the territory assigned to the Benjaminites by lot)
came out (through the falling out of the lot) between the sons of Judah and the sons of
Joseph.
Verse 12-14. The northern boundary ("the boundary towards the north side")
therefore coincided with the southern boundary of Ephraim as far as Lower Bethhoron,
and has already been commented upon in the exposition of Josh 16:1-3. The
western boundary follows in v. 14. At Beth-horon the boundary curved round and
turned southwards on the western side, namely from the mountain before (in front of)
Beth-horon southwards; and "the going out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is
Kirjath-jearim," the town of the Judaeans mentioned in Josh 15:60, the present
Kureyet el Enab (see at Josh 9:17).
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