Joshua 19:31
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:31 belongs to the account of Joshua dividing the land among Israel's tribes, setting them on the way to conquer their enemies and enter the promised rest. The inheritance it names is the cities with their villages assigned to the tribe of Asher according to their families, as Joshua 19 sets out town by town and village by village for the tribe. In this setting a lot is a divinely determined portion or allotment, illustrated by Joshua 19.
Asher's territory lay in the northern region later known as Galilee. The territory assigned to Asher, described in Joshua 19:24-31, included Saint Jean d'Acre, the ancient Accho. Asher and the neighboring tribes did not fully possess their allotted lands but settled among the Canaanite population, sometimes making them tributary.