Joshua 24:6
「And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.」
Joshua 22:25
「for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Jehovah.」
Joshua 21:27
「And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.」
Joshua 15:2
「And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;」
Joshua 5:12
「And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.」
Joshua 6:9
「The vanguard marched in front of the priests who were blowing the horns, and the rear guard marched behind the Ark, with the horns sounding all the time.」
Hazor
Capital of the northern Canaanite coalition and formerly the head of all those kingdoms; its destruction marks the collapse of Canaan's strongest alliance.
Were there already seeds of division among the tribes in Joshua's time?
From Joshua's farewell charge, look back at tensions within the tribal confederation.
Before the kingdom split, what seeds of division were already sown in the Joshua era?
Joshua's closing record of unconquered lands and intermingled peoples foreshadowed the coming split.
How did Joshua's allotment of the twelve tribes foreshadow the later division of the kingdom?
Tribal tensions in Joshua—geographic and identity fissures that foreshadowed future division.
Were there already seeds of north-south division in the Joshua period?
Tracing tribal tensions back to the book of Joshua.
