About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

6/08/2023

Joshua 18:1-28 Surveying the Remaining Land & the Inheritance of Benjamin

 

Surveying the Remaining Land & the Inheritance of Benjamin

Joshua 18:1-28               The Book of Joshua [in Smaller Chunks]

The whole congregation of the children [people] of Israel assembled together at Shiloh & [put] up the tabernacle of the congregation there. The land was [under the control of the Israelites.] 

There remained 7 of the [Israelite] tribes [that] hadn’t received their inheritance yet. Joshua said to the children [people] of Israel, How long are you [going to wait] to possess the land, [that] the Lord God of your [forefathers] has given [to] you?

[Take] out 3 men [from each tribe] & they shall go through the land & describe it [for an] inheritance [for] them & they shall [return] to me. They shall divide [the land] into 7 parts.

Judah shall [live within] their coast on the south & the house of Joseph shall [live within] their coasts [in] the north. You shall bring me the description of the 7 [portions] of the land, [so] that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

But the Levites have no [inheritance of land] among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance. [Also,] Gad, Reuben & 1/2 of the tribe of Manasseh, have [already] received their inheritance beyond [the] Jordan [River] on the east, [that] Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave [to] them. 

The [selected] men arose & went away. Joshua had [instructed those who] went to [survey &] describe the land, saying, Go, walk through the land & describe it & [return] to me, [so] I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh. 

The men went & passed through the land & described it in a book by [its] cities [in 7 portions] & [returned] to Joshua again & the [army] at Shiloh. Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord.

Joshua divided the land there to the [remaining people] of Israel, according to their divisions. The lot of the [people] of the tribe of Benjamin, came up according to their families & their [coastal borders fell] between the [people] of Judah & the [people] of Joseph. 

The border on the north was from [the] Jordan [River] & went up to the north side of Jericho & went through the mountains westward & [its end] was [in] the Wilderness of Beth Aven.

The border went from [there] toward the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward. The border [went down] to Ataroth Adar, near the hill that lies on the south side of [Lower] Beth Horon.

The [west side of the] border was drawn [from there] & [curved by] the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [faces] Beth Horon [on the south] & [ends] at Kirjath Baal, which is Kirjath Jearim, a city of the [people] of Judah. 

This was their [boundary on the western side.] And [on] the south [side, the border] was from [far end of] Kirjath Jearim [a.k.a. Kiriath Jearim & went] west to the [springs] of the Waters of Nephtoah. 

The border went down to the [border] of the mountain [that lies in front of] the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of the Giants [in] the north [a.k.a. The Valley of Rephaim.] 

[The border went down] to the Valley of Hinnom [to the southern slope of the Jebusites] & [went down] to En Rogel. From the north, [the border] was drawn & [curved &] went to En Shemesh & went [on] toward Geliloth, which is over [across from] the [Ascent of] Adummim & [went down] to the Stone of Bohan, [Reuben’s] son.

[The border went] toward the [northern] side of Arabah [a.k.a. Beth-Arabah] & down into Arabah. The border [continued] to [the north] side of Beth Hoglah & [came out] at the north bay of the Salt Sea [a.k.a. The Dead Sea, which is] at the [southern end of the] Jordan [River] & this was their southern [coastal border.] 

[The] Jordan [River] was [its] border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the [people] of Benjamin, by [its coastal borders around their inheritance,] according to their families.

These are the cities of the tribe of the [people] of Benjamin, according to their families: Jericho, Beth Hoglah & the Valley of Keziz, Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Beth El, Avim, Parah, Ophrah, Chephar Haammonai, Ophni & Gaba; 12 cities & their villages.

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, Mizpeh, Chephirah, Morah, Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, Zelah, Eleph, Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath & Kirjath; 14 cities & their villages. This is the inheritance of the [people] of Benjamin, according to their families.