(Joshua 14-19, inclusive).

And these are the countries which ... Eleazar ... and Joshua ... distributed. Here w…

And these are the countries, etc. He now proceeds to the land of Canaan, from which nine tribes and a half were to obtain their lots. He w…

And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan…

The Israelites must occupy the new conquests. Canaan would have been subdued in vain if it had not been inhabited. Yet not every man could go and s…