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Joshua 14:5

So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Jews, the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Caleb;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Hebrew Names Version
As the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did; and they divided the land.
King James Version
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Lexham English Bible
Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the Israelites did; and they allotted the land.
English Standard Version
The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
New Century Version
The Lord had told Moses how to give the land to the tribes of Israel, and the Israelites divided the land.
New English Translation
The Israelites followed the Lord 's instructions to Moses and divided up the land.
Amplified Bible
The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Israel did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did when they deuided the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus the sons of Israel did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
As Adonai had ordered Moshe, so the people of Isra'el did — they divided the land.
Darby Translation
As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord had told Moses how to divide the land among the tribes of Israel. The Israelites divided the land the way the Lord had commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
As the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.
Good News Translation
The people of Israel divided the land as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Literal Translation
as Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they allotted the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as the LORDE comaunded Moses, so dyd the childre of Israel, and deuyded the londe.
American Standard Version
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
Bible in Basic English
As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As the Lord commaunded Moyses: euen so the children of Israel dyd, when they deuided the lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
King James Version (1611)
As the Lord commaunded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they diuided the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; and they divided the land.
English Revised Version
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As the Lord comaundide to Moises, so the sones of Israel diden, and departiden the lond.
Young's Literal Translation
as Jehovah commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done, and they apportion the land.
Update Bible Version
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did; and they divided the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
World English Bible
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
New King James Version
As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
New Living Translation
So the land was distributed in strict accordance with the Lord 's commands to Moses.
New Life Bible
The people of Israel did just as the Lord had told Moses. They divided the land.
New Revised Standard
The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did the sons of Israel, - when they apportioned the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.
Revised Standard Version
The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
THE MESSAGE
The People of Israel followed through exactly as God had commanded Moses. They apportioned the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus the sons of Israel did just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Contextual Overview

1Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel. 2Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses. 3For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites. 4The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. 5So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
Genesis 14:11
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:23
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
Genesis 15:20
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
Deuteronomy 1:4
This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Deuteronomy 3:20
until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them, across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you."
Deuteronomy 3:22
Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you."
Joshua 12:4
Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,.... Particularly with respect to the division of the land, and making provision for the Levites; this they did by their heads and representatives, the high priest and chief ruler, and the princes of the several tribes:

and they divided the land; met about it, and began to take measures in order to do it; they prepared for it, though as yet it was not actually done, and previous to it was the following incident.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 14:5. They divided the land. — This work was begun some time before at Gilgal, and was finished some time after at Shiloh. It must have required a very considerable time to make all the geographical arrangements that were necessary for this purpose.


 
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