From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
Joshua 15:46 stands in the book of Joshua, the first of the twelve historical books that record the history of the chosen people as a nation from their first occupation of the land of Canaan to the return from the captivity. The book is named for its leading character Joshua, by whom part of it was written, and its first twelve chapters bear the marks of an eyewitness who took part in the events, seen in the first-person plural statement about the crossing in chapter 5 verse 1 that we were passed over and in the vivid circumstantial detail of the narrative. Within the book the verse stands in chapters 13 to 22, which contain the account of the distribution of the land and are based on written documents in which the property was accurately described.
The verse belongs to the conquering of the Canaanite foes and the dividing and settling of the Promised Land among Israel and its tribes, which set the people on the way to conquer their foes and enter the promised rest. In narrative order, this conquering and division follow Achan's sin and its fearful consequences. This division section also shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness, and it closes with the assurance that God fulfilled every good thing He had promised.
Joshua 15:46 stands in the book of Joshua, the first of the twelve historical books that record the history of the chosen people as a nation from their first occupation of the land of Canaan to the return from the captivity. The book is named for its leading character Joshua, by whom part of it was written, and its first twelve chapters bear the marks of an eyewitness who took part in the events, seen in the first-person plural statement about the crossing in chapter 5 verse 1 that we were passed over and in the vivid circumstantial detail of the narrative. Within the book the verse stands in chapters 13 to 22, which contain the account of the distribution of the land and are based on written documents in which the property was accurately described.
The verse belongs to the conquering of the Canaanite foes and the dividing and settling of the Promised Land among Israel and its tribes, which set the people on the way to conquer their foes and enter the promised rest. In narrative order, this conquering and division follow Achan's sin and its fearful consequences. This division section also shows Israel's lack of faith and slowness, and it closes with the assurance that God fulfilled every good thing He had promised.