Joshua 19:44 belongs to the geographical record of the division of Canaan among the tribes, naming Eltekeh, Gibbethon, and Baalath in their place in that allotment. It stands within the account of Joshua dividing and settling the Promised Land among the children of Israel after he had led them through the Jordan. That dividing set them in a fair way to conquer all their foes and to find the promised rest.
The record of this distribution rested on written documents that accurately described the property divided. In Joshua 19 the lot is the part, division, or fate that falls to one by divine determination, as seen in the dividing of the land by lot. To lot means to allot, assign, distribute, sort, catalogue, and portion.
Joshua 19:44 belongs to the geographical record of the division of Canaan among the tribes, naming Eltekeh, Gibbethon, and Baalath in their place in that allotment. It stands within the account of Joshua dividing and settling the Promised Land among the children of Israel after he had led them through the Jordan. That dividing set them in a fair way to conquer all their foes and to find the promised rest.
The record of this distribution rested on written documents that accurately described the property divided. In Joshua 19 the lot is the part, division, or fate that falls to one by divine determination, as seen in the dividing of the land by lot. To lot means to allot, assign, distribute, sort, catalogue, and portion.