Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 15-17.

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This is a difficult passage for me to find a lesson in.  It is almost completely a description of the territories which were allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the second half of Manasseh (the first half received its territory east of the Jordan River).  I found it interesting that the territory allotted to Judah included several Philistine cities, cities which were not controlled by the Israelites until David was king (and even after that Ekron, at least, was independent during the reign of King Ahaziah, the son of King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom).  Also of interest, the writer tells us that the Jebusites still controlled Jerusalem at the time he wrote this book even though Jerusalem was in the portion of Judah.  Later, at the end of the description of the land allotted to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, we are told that they had failed to drive the Canaanites out of their territory and put them, the Canaanites, to forced labor when they became strong enough.  After telling us that fact, the writer tells us that the people of Ephraim and Manasseh complained that the Canaanites who dwelled in the plain have chariots of iron and thus were too strong for them.  Joshua told them to drive the Canaanites out even though they were strong and had chariots of iron.  It is not clear to me if that was a prophecy or a command.  If it was a command, it appears that they failed to obey it.

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