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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. We've been walking through land allotments for the 12 tribes, and today we start out with the land for the descendants of Joseph. If you recall, Joseph's dad Jacob formally adopted Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, so they essentially took over Joseph's place in the distribution of the inheritance.
Then, at some point, the tribe of Manasseh split in half and became two half-tribes. One half of them wanted to live east of the Jordan River as part of the Transjordan tribes. We'll call them East Manasseh. And the other half inherited part of the original promised land across the Jordan. We'll call that West Manasseh. But during the division process for the land...
The people who will become West Manasseh get slumped in with Ephraim and they complain about it. They want to be split off from each other and get land that reflects the size of each tribe. I'm picturing one of those scenes in the movies where siblings share a bedroom and put tape down the middle so they can mark out their own spot. Joshua agrees to their request for division.
He hands them the tape and tells them that they're responsible for clearing the land and driving out the people in it, even though they seem to be bigger and stronger than them. The land they get is west of the Jordan River in the Promised Land. And just like we learned about their brothers in East Manasseh yesterday, they don't drive out all the Canaanites from the land.
Since the Canaanites refuse to leave, they make them do manual labor. We also encountered the five daughters of Zelophehad again today. The last time we saw them, they were marrying their cousins, which was part of the agreement in order for them to get their part of the land inheritance, so the land can stay in the tribe.
They approached Joshua and Eleazar about that land agreement, and maybe they're nervous because Moses was the one they had originally talked to, and he's dead and gone now, and this new guy Joshua is in charge. But just as God had said, they were given the land they originally requested.
Again, we've included a general map of the tribal allotments in today's show notes if you want to see how all this lays out. In chapter 18, all the tribes gather together at a place called Shiloh, where they set up the tabernacle. This is the first place the tabernacle is erected in the Promised Land.
There are still seven tribes waiting to hear about which land they're getting, and they're probably getting antsy. Joshua sends three men from each of those tribes on a mission to check out all the remaining territory and report back to him. When they return, he divvies up all the land accordingly. We end with a description of Benjamin's land allotment.
It's far more detailed than the others in this list, with the exception of Judah's allotment. There's some special stuff going on with Judah, as you know, and there's also some special stuff going on with Benjamin. Benjamin gets the land that includes Jerusalem, and Judah borders it on the south as well.
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