This backwardness probably arose from the people's unwillingness to abandon the nomadic life in which they had been born and raised, and to settle …

And Joshua said ... —Joshua, who took no inheritance for himself until all the tribes had received their portions, was free from t…

And Joshua said to the children of Israel
To those of the seven tribes:

how long [are] you slack to go to posses…

After a year or more, Joshua blamed their slackness and told them how to proceed. God, by his grace, has given us a title to a good land, the heave…