Chapter 15

Description of the land given to the tribe of Judah.  Caleb's portion is within Judah, but is his.

The description is very detailed and even lists the cities that were included.  I note that the cities include some in Gaza - Ekron, Ashdod, etc.  These were held by the Philistines when the land was granted to Judah.  Apparently, Judah was still supposed to go to war to take those cities and wipe out their inhabitants.  I don't think they did that.  And the Philistines pestered them for centuries.  So the lesson here is that God told Israel to wipe out those already living in the land.  Where they did so, things were peaceful, but where they did not do that, the native people were a thorn to Israel from then on.  To this day in fact!

2024 - The term "Brook of Egypt" is used a few times in these chapters.  I always thought it was the Nile, such that Israel's land went from the Nile to the Euphrates.  That is not so.  So actually is a Brook of Egypt.  It runs sort of NW into the Mediterranean Sea, The "Way to Shur", a main road at that time, crosses the Brook of Egypt, west of Kadesh-Barnea.  It is a little further west that the border of modern day Israel but not much further.

The Jebusites, who lived in Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, and Josh 15:63 says they are there to this day.