In Joshua 19:1-51, we come to a section of Scripture that tends to leave us a little bit confused as to why it is part of the Bible. It appears to provide little or no spiritual insight that we can apply to our 21st-Century lives as followers of Jesus Christ. But if you look closely, you'll discover that there is a lot we can glean from this list of difficult-to-pronounce city names and obscure geographic references. This entire chapter is about the allotment of the land of promise to the remaining tribes and every single acre of land was going to be doled out according to the sovereign will of God. Nothing was going to be left to chance. The eventual location of each and every tribe was predetermined by God and they all received exactly what God had deemed appropriate for their needs. There was no favoritism involved. And no tribe was treated unfairly or suffered inequity at the hands of God. The entire conquest of Canaan and the eventual dispersal of the land between the tribes was the sovereign work of God.
