By lot - We are not told in what manner the lot was cast. Perhaps two urns were employed, one containing a description of the several distri…

(Joshua 14-19, inclusive).

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

By lot [was] their inheritance
Every tribe had its part and portion assigned to it, by the casting of lots; which wa…

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…