◄ Joshua 18:10 ►
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Good News Translation
Joshua drew lots to consult the LORD for them, and assigned each of the remaining tribes of Israel a certain part of the land.

New Revised Standard Version
and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua apportioned the land to the Israelites, to each a portion.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua found out from the LORD how to divide the land, and he told the tribes what the LORD had decided.

New American Bible
Joshua then cast lots for them before the LORD in Shiloh, and divided up the land for the Israelites into their separate shares.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

cast lots

Joshua 18:6,8 The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the Lord your God. . . .

Proverbs 18:18 The lot suppresseth contentions, and determineth even between the mighty.

Ezekiel 47:22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born among the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 48:29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel: and these are the portions of them, saith the Lord God.

Matthew 27:35 And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.

Acts 13:19 And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.

before the Lord

Psalm 16:5,6 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. . . .

Psalm 47:4 He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

Psalm 61:5 For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

Context
The Remainder Divided
…9So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned to Joshua, to the camp in Silo. 10And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.
Cross References
Numbers 34:16
And the Lord said to Moses:

Joshua 18:9
So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book. And they returned to Joshua, to the camp in Silo.

Joshua 18:11
And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph.

Joshua 19:51
These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the princes of the families, and of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they divided the land.

Jeremiah 7:12
Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:

Micah 2:5
In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Joshua 18:9
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