Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah are listed among the mountain cities allotted to the tribe of Judah. The verse stands after the lesson of Achan's sin and its fearful consequences, within the portion of Joshua dealing with the conquering of the Canaanites and the division of the land. It is part of the account of the distribution of the land in Joshua 13 to 22, which records the history of the chosen people from their first occupation of the land of Canaan as a nation and is based on written documents in which the property was accurately described. It belongs to the account in Joshua 11 to 21 of the division and settling of the Promised Land among the tribes, a record that shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness and that closes with the assurance that God accomplished all that He had promised.
Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah are listed among the mountain cities allotted to the tribe of Judah. The verse stands after the lesson of Achan's sin and its fearful consequences, within the portion of Joshua dealing with the conquering of the Canaanites and the division of the land. It is part of the account of the distribution of the land in Joshua 13 to 22, which records the history of the chosen people from their first occupation of the land of Canaan as a nation and is based on written documents in which the property was accurately described. It belongs to the account in Joshua 11 to 21 of the division and settling of the Promised Land among the tribes, a record that shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness and that closes with the assurance that God accomplished all that He had promised.