29These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
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These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-29)God here appoints commissioners for the dividing of the land to them. The conquest of it is taken for granted, though as yet there was never a stroke struck towards it. Here is no nomination of the generals and commanders-in-chief that should carry on the war; for they were to get the land in possession, not by their own sword or bow, but by the power and favour of God ; and so confident must they…
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