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Joshua 18

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1 Ja kaikki Israelin lasten kansa kokoontui Siloon ja pani siellä ylös seurakunnan majan; ja maa oli heille alamainen.

2 Ja oli vielä Israelin lapsista seitsemän sukukuntaa, joiden perintö ei ollut jaettu.

3 Ja Josua sanoi Israelin lapsille: kuinka kauvan te olette niin kähläät, ettette mene ja omista maata, jonka Herra teidän isäinne Jumala teille on antanut.

4 Ottakaat itsellenne jokaisesta sukukunnasta kolme miestä, lähettääkseni heitä menemään ja vaeltamaan maan lävitse, ja että he kirjoittaisivat sen perimisensä jälkeen ja palajaisivat minun tyköni.

5 Ja he jakakaan maan seitsemään osaan: Juudan pitää oleman rajallansa etelän puolella, ja Josephin huoneen pitä oleman rajallansa pohjan puolella.

6 Mutta teidän pitää kirjoittaman ne seitsemän maan osaa ja tuoman tänne minun tyköni, niin minä heitän teidän arpanne tässä Herran meidän Jumalamme edessä.

7 Sillä Leviläisillä ei ole yhtäkään osaa teidän seassanne, vaan Herran pappeus on heidän perimisensä. Mutta Gad ja Ruben, ja puoli Manassen sukukuntaa ottivat osansa tuolla puolella Jordania itäisellä puolella, jonka Moses Herran palvelia antoi heille.

8 Niin miehet nousivat ja läksivät matkaan, ja Josua käski heitä, kuin he tahtoivat mennä kirjoittamaan maata, ja sanoi: vaeltakaat maan lävitse ja kirjoittakaat se, ja tulkaat jälleen minun tyköni, ja minä heitän tässä teidän arpanne Herran edessä Silossa.

9 Niin miehet läksivät ja vaelsivat maan lävitse, ja kirjoittivat sen kirjaan, seitsemään osaan, kaupunkein jälkeen, ja tulivat Siloon, Josuan tykö leiriin.

10 Silloin heitti Josua Silossa arvan heille Herran edessä, ja Josua jakoi siinä maan Israelin lapsille, heidän osansa jälkeen.

11 Ja BenJaminin lasten sukukunnan arpa lankesi heidän sukukuntainsa jälkeen, ja heidän arpansa raja oli Juudan lasten ja Josephin lasten vaiheella.

12 Ja heidän rajansa oli pohjan kulmalla Jordanista, ja se raja menee ylöskäsin Jerihon viertä myöten pohjan puolesta, ja nousee vuorelle länteen päin, ja loppuu Betavenin korpeen.

13 Ja se raja juoksee sieltä Lutsaan, Lutsan viertä myöten lounaaseen päin, se on BetEl, ja laskee AtaraotAdariin, mäen ohessa etelään päin alamaista BetHoronia.

14 Sitte laskee raja ja kääntää itsensä ympäri lännen puoleen meren kulmaan siitä mäestä, joka on BetHoronin edessä mereen päin, ja loppuu KirjatBaalin tykönä, se on KirjatJearim, Juudan lasten kaupunki. Tämä on lännenpuolinen kulma.

15 Mutta lounaanpuolinen kulma on KirjatJearimin äärestä, ja loppuu raja lännen puoleen, ja tulee Nephtoan lähteen tykö,

16 Ja laskee mäen loppuun, joka on Hinnomin lasten laakson edessä, joka on Rephaimin notkossa, pohjan puolella, ja laskee Hinnomin laaksoon Jebusilaisten viereen etelään päin, ja laskee Rogelin lähteelle,

17 Ja antaa itsensä pohjoisesta, ja juoksee EnSemeksen tykö, ja juoksee Gelilotin tykö, jotka ovat ylhäällä Adummin puolessa, ja laskee Bohanin, Rubenin pojan kiven tykö,

18 Ja menee sen tasaisen kedon viertä myöten, joka on pohjaan päin, ja laskee tasaiselle kedolle,

19 Ja menee sitä viertä myöten, BetHoglan ohesta pohjaan päin, ja loppuu Suolaisen meren lahteen, pohjaan päin, lounaan puolella Jordania. Tämä on lounaan puolinen raja.

20 Mutta idänpuolinen kulma pitää Jordaniin loppuman. Tämä on BenJaminin lasten perintö heidän rajainsa ympärillä, heidän sukukuntainsa jälkeen.

21 Mutta nämät ovat BenJaminin lasten sukukunnan kaupungit heidän heimokuntainsa jälkeen: Jeriho, BetHogla, EmekKetsits;

22 BetAraba, Zemaraim, BetEl;

23 Avvim, Para ja Ophra;

24 KapharAmmoni, Ophni, ja Gaba: kaksitoistakymmentä kaupunkia kylinensä;

25 Gibeon, Rama ja Beerot;

26 Mitspe, Kaphira ja Mosa;

27 Rekem, Jirpeel ja Tarala;

28 Zela, Eleph, ja Jebusi, se on Jerusalem, GibeatKirjat, neljätoistakymmentä kaupunkia kylinensä. Tämä on BenJaminin lasten perimys heidän sukukuntainsa jälkeen.

   


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Exploring the Meaning of Joshua 18

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff, Julian Duckworth

Joshua 18: The rest of the land is divided up among the 7 remaining tribes, and the tribe of Benjamin receives its lot.

After several chapters covering the allocation of the land for Reuben, Gad, Judah, Ephraim and Manasseh, there were still seven tribes to be provided for. Before this was done, Joshua gathered these seven tribes together and told them to choose three men from each tribe. These men went and surveyed the region, divided up all the land and cities into seven parts, and recorded everything in a book. Then they came back to Joshua, who cast lots to decide where the seven remaining tribes would live.

The first of the seven allocations was for the tribe of Benjamin. Benjamin was the youngest of the sons of Jacob, and he was a full brother to Joseph. Their mother, Rachel, whom Jacob had loved so much, died giving birth to Benjamin.

The city of Jerusalem was first allocated to Benjamin, but in time became more associated with Judah. In fact, these were the two tribes which later made up the kingdom of Judah, as opposed to the ten northern tribes forming the kingdom of Israel. Benjamin’s territory included the cities of Jericho, Ai and Gibeon, all of which had been significant soon after Israel crossed the River Jordan. Saul, the first king of Israel, was a Benjamite.

This story about surveying the land represents our need to know things as they truly are. This could mean many things: for example, exploring the idea of heaven, or hell, or life in this world, or a spiritual teaching such as providence. It might be to learn about justice and compassion, or true freedom. It may be our need to look honestly within ourselves and recognize some of our self-centred ways (see Swedenborg’s work, Arcana Caelestia 1612).

The Israelite’s findings about the land were recorded in a book, which really would have been a scroll. This is like our ‘book of life’, in which everything about us down to the least detail is preserved so that in eternity, we shall know who we are (see Swedenborg’s Apocalypse Explained 199). Joshua drew lots so the Lord’s will would be clear to the people of Israel.

The spiritual meaning of Benjamin needs some careful explanation. Technically, it means ’the spiritual of the celestial’, and this is our ability to understand the reason for the most loving experiences we can have. It is heightened thinking joining with heightened feeling. Benjamin was the youngest son, the special brother of Joseph, who stands for the Lord (Arcana Caelestia 4585).

With this in mind, it is useful to know that Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born, lay in the territory of Benjamin. Bethlehem’s name means ‘house of bread’ giving us the idea of nourishment for our physical and our spiritual lives. God came into the world to bring us the food of heaven and nourishment from the Word, so that we may fight our evils and choose what is good (Arcana Caelestia 6247, 4594).

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Joshua 18

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1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.

6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

11 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.

12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.

14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,

17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:

19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:

25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.