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Joshua 19

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1 Senjälkeen lankesi toinen arpa Simeonin lasten sukukunnalle heidän sukuinsa jälkeen, ja heidän perintönsä oli keskellä Juudan lasten perimystä.

2 Ja heidän perittäväksensä tuli BeerSeba, Seba ja Molada:

3 HatsarSual, Bala ja Atsem;

4 Eltolad, Betul ja Horma;

5 Ziglag, Bethammarkabot ja HatsarSusa:

6 BetLebaot ja Saruhen: kolmetoistakymmentä kaupunkia ja heidän kylänsä;

7 Ain, Rimmon, Eter ja Asan: neljä kaupunkia kylinensä;

8 Siihen myös kaikki kylät, jotka ympäri näitä kaupungeita ovat, BaalatBeeriin asti, ja Ramatiin, etelän puoleen. Tämä on Simeonin lasten sukukunnan perimys heidän suvuissansa,

9 Sillä Simeonin lasten perimys on keskellä Juudan lasten osaa; ja että Juudan lasten osa oli suurempi kuin he itse, sentähden perivät Simeonin lapset osan keskellä heidän perintöänsä.

10 Kolmas arpa lankesi Sebulonin lasten sukukunnalle heidän sukuinsa jälkeen, ja heidän perintönsä raja oli Saridiin asti.

11 Ja heidän rajansa astuu lännen puoleen Maralaan, ja ulottuu Dabbasetiin ja siihen ojaan, joka juoksee Jokneamin ohitse;

12 Ja kääntyy Saridista itään päin auringon nousemisen puoleen, KislotTaborin rajan tykö, ja menee Dabratiin, ja ulottuu Japhiaan;

13 Ja menee sieltä itään päin lävitse Githan, Hepherin, Ittan, Katsin, ja loppuu Rimmoniin, Mitoariin ja Neaan;

14 Ja juoksee ympäri pohjan puoleen Hannatoniin päin, ja loppuu JephtaElin laaksoon;

15 Kattat, Nahalal, Simron, Ideala ja Betlehem: kaksitoistakymmentä kaupunkia ja heidän kylänsä.

16 Tämä on Sebulonin lasten perimys heidän sukuinsa jälkeen, nämät heidän kaupunkinsa ja kylänsä.

17 Neljäs arpa lankesi Isaskarin lapsille heidän sukuinsa jälkeen.

18 Ja heidän rajansa oli Jisreel, Kesullot ja Sunem;

19 Hapharaim, Sion ja Anaharat;

20 Rabbit, Kisjon ja Abets;

21 Remet, EnGannim, Enhadda ja BetPhatsets;

22 Ja ulottuu Taboriin, Sahatsimaan, ja BetSemekseen, ja hänen loppunsa ovat Jordanin tykönä: kuusitoistakymmentä kaupunkia kylinensä.

23 Tämä on Isaskarin lasten sukukunnan perimys, kaupungit ja kylät heidän sukuinsa jälkeen.

24 Viides arpa lankesi Asserin lasten sukukunnalle heidän sukuinsa jälkeen,

25 Ja heidän rajansa oli Helkat, Hali, Beten ja Aksaph;

26 Allammelek, Amead ja Miseal, ja ulottuu Karmeliin länteen päin, ja SihorLibnatiin;

27 Ja kääntyy auringon nousemista käsin BetDagonia vastaan, ja ulottuu Sebuloniin ja Jephtahelin laaksoon pohjan puoleen, BetEmekiin ja Negieliin, ja loppuu Kabulin tykönä vasemmalla puolella;

28 Ja Ebroniin, Rehobiin, Hammoniin ja Kanaan, aina isoon Sidoniin asti.

29 Ja kääntyy raja Raman puoleen, aina vahvaan kaupunkiin Zoriin asti, ja palajaa Hosaan päin, ja loppuu meren tykönä nuoraa myöten Aksibin tykö;

30 Umma, Aphek ja Rehob: kaksikolmattakymmentä kaupunkia kylinensä.

31 Tämä on Asserin lasten sukukunnan perimys heidän sukuinsa jälkeen, ne kaupungit ja heidän kylänsä.

32 Kuudes arpa lankesi Naphtalin lapsille heidän sukunsa jälkeen.

33 Ja heidän rajansa oli Helephistä, Elon Zananimin lävitse, Adami, Nekeb, JabneEl, Lakkumiin asti ja loppuu Jordaniin.

34 Ja raja kääntyy lännen puoleen AsnotTaborin tykö, ja tulee sieltä hamaan Hukkokiin, ja ulottuu etelästä Sebuloniin ja lännestä Asseriin ja Juudaan asti Jordanin tykö auringon ylenemisen puoleen.

35 Ja vahvat kaupungit ovat: Ziddim, Zer, Hammat, Rakkat ja Kinneret,

36 Adama, Rama ja Hatsor,

37 Kedes, Edrei ja Enhatsor,

38 Jireon, MigdalEl, Harem, BetAnat ja BetSemes: yhdeksäntoistakymmentä kaupunkia kylinensä.

39 Tämä on Naphtalin lasten sukukunnan perimys heidän suvuissansa, kaupungit ja kylät.

40 Seitsemäs arpa lankesi Danin lasten sukukunnalle heidän sukuinsa jälkeen.

41 Ja raja heidän perimisestänsä oli Sorea, Estaol ja Irsemes,

42 Saalabbin, Ajalon ja Jitla,

43 Elon, Timnata ja Ekron,

44 Elteke, Gibbeton ja Baalat,

45 Jehut, BeneBarak ja GatRimmon,

46 Mehaijarkon ja Rakkon, sen rajan kanssa Japhoa vastaan;

47 Ja siellä loppuu Danin lasten raja. Ja Danin lapset nousivat ja sotivat Lesemiä vastaan, ja voittivat sen ja löivät sen miekan terällä, omistivat sen ja asuivat siinä, ja kutsuivat Lesemin Daniksi, isänsä Danin nimeltä.

48 Tämä on Danin lasten sukukunnan perintö heidän suvuissansa, nämät kaupungit ja niiden kylät.

49 Ja kuin he olivat lakanneet jakamasta maata rajoinensa, antoivat Israelin lapset Josualle Nunin pojalle perinnön heidän seassansa,

50 Ja antoivat hänelle Herran käskyn jälkeen sen kaupungin, jota hän anoi, joka oli TimnatSera Ephraimin vuorella; siellä hän rakensi kaupungin ja asui siinä.

51 Nämät ovat ne perimiset, jotka pappi Eleatsar ja Josua Nunin poika ja ylimmäiset Israelin lasten sukukuntain isistä arvalla jakoivat Silossa Herran edessä, seurakunnan majan oven tykönä; ja niin lopettivat maan jakamisen.

   


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Exploring the Meaning of Joshua 19

Door New Christian Bible Study Staff, Julian Duckworth

Joshua 19: The last six tribes receive their territories, and Joshua his inheritance.

This chapter is the last of seven chapters detailing the division of the land of Canaan among the tribes. In this chapter, the remaining six tribes receive their portions.

Simeon received land very much in the south, below that of Judah, and Simeon’s territory was made a part of Judah. Simeon means ‘to hear’. To hear the Lord, and to hear the truth, means wanting to live in obedience with what the Lord teaches. Simeon was important in earlier biblical events, but is rarely mentioned later on; obeying the Lord can and should be a quiet affair (see Swedenborg’s work, Apocalypse Revealed 87).

The area given to Zebulun was modest and towards the north, between the Sea of Galilee and the coast. Zebulun’s name means ‘place of exaltation and honor’, and its spiritual meaning is just as glorious: it refers to honoring the Lord through the way we live our lives, both inwardly and outwardly (see Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell 390).

Issachar’s territory was a small, fertile area in the north, next to the Jordan. The name “Issachar” means ‘a man of hire’ or ‘a hired man’. Spiritually, this is about wanting to serve the Lord, and dedicating our lives to this. Then we are ‘employed’ as servants of the Lord, and we are rewarded with spiritual strength, joy, and blessings (see Swedenborg’s Arcana Caelestia 6388).

Asher means ‘happy’ - a delightful name - and its territory was along the northern coastline, extending inland. It included Mount Carmel and the Plain of Sharon, which were both beautiful places. Spiritual happiness is quite deep, and is really a feeling of joy, contentment, and well-being. When we are spiritually happy, we feel glad to be alive, to know the Lord, and to do what is good because of God (Arcana Caelestia 6408).

Naphtali had territory going up from the Sea of Galilee to the northern border. Naphtali means ‘crafty and cunning’, which does not sound very heavenly. However, the idea is that we use our intelligence to bring heavenly results from the countless decisions we make each and every day. Earlier in the Bible, Naphtali is blessed and called ‘a deer let loose’, which would then be free to bound away (see Genesis 49:21, Arcana Caelestia 3928).

Dan had two small territories: one in the centre on the coast, and one in the far north near the source of the River Jordan. Dan means ‘to judge well’, and it stands for our need to treat people fairly because of our relationship with the Lord. Perhaps there are two territories because one is our mind (north), and the other is in life (center) (Arcana Caelestia 3923).

Finally, Joshua himself is given his inheritance, a place in Ephraim called Timnath Serah. The name means ‘an extra portion’, and this suggests that beyond everything Joshua has done, he is to be given something further. Spiritually, this could be the unexpected delight we get when we devote ourselves to serving the Lord (Arcana Caelestia 995[3]).

The spiritual meaning of receiving a portion of land is that we are able to experience blessings and goodness from the Lord, but only after we have ‘conquered the land’. This means working through our temptations and overcoming weaknesses during our natural life.

Since the land of Canaan stands for heaven – and also for the growth of heaven in us – each of the twelve tribes represent a part of heavenly life that needs to be active in us. We must learn hear the word of the Lord, judge well in our daily actions, and honor His name by the way we live.

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Arcana Coelestia #2724

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2724. 'And there he called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity' means worship from it. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling on the name of God' as worship, dealt with in 440. Those who belonged to the Ancient Church did not understand merely name by the word 'name' but the entire nature, see 144, 145, 340, 768, 1754, 1896, 2009. Thus by 'the name of God' they understood everything in one embrace by which God was worshipped, consequently everything of love and faith. But once the internal aspect of worship perished and only the external was left people began to understand nothing else by 'the name of God' than the name. Indeed they went so far as to worship the name itself, being quite indifferent to what the love and the faith were in which their worship was grounded. As a result of this nations began to identify themselves by the names of their gods, the Jews and Israelites setting themselves above the rest because they worshipped Jehovah. They made the utterance and the calling upon the name itself the essential feature of worship; but in fact worship of the name alone is not worship at all, for that practice may exist even among the worst of people who in worshipping the name alone become greater profaners.

[2] Now because 'the name of God' means the entirety of worship, that is, the love and faith in their entirety from which He is worshipped, it is therefore clear what is meant by hallowed be Your name - in the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:9, and what by the following words spoken by the Lord,

You will be hated by everyone for My name's sake. Matthew 10:22.

If two of you agree in My name on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:19-20.

He who leaves houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will be allotted the inheritance of eternal life. Matthew 19:29.

Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew 21:9.

Jesus said, You will not see Me from now on until you say, Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord. Matthew 23:39.

You will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. Then many will stumble and betray one another, and hate one another, and all for My name's sake. 1 Matthew 24:9-10.

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, John 1:12.

He who does not believe is judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17-18.

Jesus said, Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it. John 14:14-15; 15:16; 16:23-24, 26-27.

Jesus said, I have manifested Your name to men. John 17:6.

Holy Father, keep them in Your name whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one. John 17:11-12.

I made known to them Your name, and I will make known that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26.

That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31.

There are in addition very many places in the Old Testament in which the name of Jehovah and of God is not used to mean the name but love and faith in their entirety in which worship is grounded.

[3] But those who worship the name alone, without love and faith, are spoken of in Matthew as follows,

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy through Your name, and cast out demons through Your name, and do many mighty works in Your name? But I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Matthew 7:22-23.

As has been stated, once the member of the Church from being internal became external, and began to make worship consist in a name alone, people no longer acknowledged one God but many. For it was a custom among the ancients to add something after the name of Jehovah and by doing that to call to mind some benefit or attribute of His, as in the present verse, 'He called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity'. Another example occurs in the next chapter,

Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh (that is, Jehovah will see). Genesis 22:14.

And the following, among others, are further examples,

Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi (that is, Jehovah is my banner). Exodus 17:15.

Gideon built an altar to Jehovah and called it [the altar] of Jehovah Shalom (that is, of peace). Judges 6:24.

It was from this custom that those who made worship consist in a name alone came to acknowledge so many gods, and also that among the gentiles, especially those in Greece and Rome, so many gods came to be acknowledged and worshipped, whereas the Ancient Church from which those attributive names derived always worshipped but one God who was revered under so many names, for the reason that by 'name' they understood the essential nature.

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1. These six words which Swedenborg apparently copied from the Schmidius Latin version do not occur in the original Greek.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.