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JOSHUA CHAPTER 18
The tabernacle is set up in Shiloh, Jos_18:1. The remainder of the land described, and divided into seven parts, for the seven tribes which as yet had no inheritance, Jos_18:2-9. Joshua casts the lot at Shiloh, Jos_18:10: the first comes out for Benjamin, whose borders and cities are described, Jos_18:11-28.
Set up the tabernacle of the congregation there, by God’s appointment, as is manifest from Deu_12:5, &c.; Jer_7:12. Hither it was removed from Gilgal, partly for the honour and conveniency of Joshua, that he being of the tribe of Ephraim, and seating himself there, might have the opportunity of consulting with God as oft as he desired and needed; and partly for the conveniency of all the tribes, that, being in the heart and centre of them, they might more easily resort to it from all places. Here the tabernacle continued for above three hundred years, even till Samuel’s days, 1Sa_1:3.
And the land, or, for the land, because these words contain a reason of the former action: the particle and is oft used for for, as hath been showed.