It is time for the fifth lot to be pulled in the assignment of territory in the Promised Land. And the winner is… Asher! Asher is given territory that still needed to be conquered. The region they were assigned wasn’t cleared during the campaigns that Joshua led. But by the time Israel is split into […]
Issachar is the fourth tribe to receive their inheritance by lot. This is another very small landlocked portion. There is not a lot of information about the tribe of Issachar, even as we read on in our bible. I tried looking up their history through google, of course, and came away with a one paragraph […]
It is time for the tribe of Zebulun to receive their portion. This is the third portion allotted by lot to the remaining tribes. By now you already know about my geography skills. They are VERY poor, especially when it comes to lands where I have never lived. Ask me to get around my own […]
The tribe of Simeon is next to receive their inheritance. Theirs is unique among all the others as it is surrounded on all sides by another tribe. Judah was given a VERY large portion. So large that they couldn’t care for all of it. The people were occupying the outer reaches and the center portion […]
The time has come to assign the inheritance to the last of the tribes of Israel. Benjamin’s lot is first up. His portion lay between Joseph’s families and Judah. Here we go with geography and topography again! I am not even going to attempt to figure it all out. SCORES of scholars haven’t been able […]
