Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and so they made an end of dividing the country among its tribes. The tribal inheritances were assigned by lot at Shiloh, before the Lord and at the tabernacle, by Eleazar, Joshua, and the tribal heads, and the verse records the completion of the division of the country.
The tabernacle had been set up at Shiloh in the promised land, where it stood when the division was made. After Israel reached the promised land it was moved from Gilgal, where it had stood for a few years, to Shiloh, where it remained for many years.
Joshua, whose name means saviour even as Jesus does in Greek, was one of the two of his generation who wholly followed the Lord during the forty years of temptation and wilderness. He entered his greatest work at about eighty years of age, leading the children of Israel through the Jordan and dividing the land for an inheritance. He received an inheritance himself among the tribal inheritances and had a leading part in the final possession of the promised land.
The verse marks the completion of dividing the Promised Land among Israel's tribes, and the book of Joshua recounts both the conquest of the land and its division. Chapters 11-21 describe the division and settling of the land, and chapter 21 closes by affirming that God had fulfilled all his promises.
The division set Israel in a fair way to conquer all foes and find the promised rest, with the Captain of Jehovah's hosts present with Joshua in all his work of victory. Trust brought triumph as at Jericho, the first-fruit of that evil land, whose walls were leveled by the invisible army of God, and failure to trust brought defeat as at Ai. Faithfulness would have let them soon possess the land, while Israel's lack of faith and slowness and general backsliding from the triumph of Jericho kept them from soon possessing it and brought captivity again and again and years lived in adversity instead of prosperity.
In the verse, lot means the portion assigned to someone, the divinely determined allotment of land. It is the determination of Providence by which the fate or portion of one is determined, as when the inheritances of Israel were divided by lot in Shiloh before the LORD and the dividing of the country was finished.
The verse contains one of seventy-six Old Testament uses of the Hebrew word goh-rahl translated lot. That sense of lot shows that Daniel standing in his lot at the end of the 1335 days is standing in his lot in the decisions of the judgment of the righteous dead, not standing in the lot of his inheritance, since goh-rahl in Daniel 12:13 does not mean an inheritance lot.