Wednesday Bible study: My eyeballs roll up into my head

I warned you that we are in a very tedious stretch of the Book of Joshua. Why the authors decided to supply all of this surveyor ' s data I cannot say. I will just note verses 16 and 17: "16 And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”17 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb ’s brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage. " So yes, according to Exodus, you ' re allowed to sell your daughter. She doesn ' t seem to mind much -- she comes back and asks Caleb for a spring, which he gives her. In verse 33,Eshtaol and Zorah are given to Judah. In Joshua 19, just four chapters later, they are given to Dan. Looks like the editor was napping on the job.15 The allotment for the tribe of Judah, according to its clans, extended down to the territory of Edom, to the Desert of Zin in the extreme south.2 Their southern boundary started from the bay at the southern end of the Dead Sea,3 crossed south of Scorpion Pass, continued on to Zin and went over to the south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it ran past Hezron up to Addar and curved around to Karka.4 It then passed along to Azmon and joined the Wadi of Egypt, ending at the Mediterranean Sea. This is their[a] southern boundary.5 The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.The northern boundary started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,6 went up to Beth Hoglah and continued...
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