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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "settlement",
  "era": "conquest-judges",
  "order": 90,
  "title": "An inheritance for the tribes",
  "group": "inheritance-and-covenant",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 1399 BC onward · Caleb aged 85 at the allotments (Joshua 14:10)",
    "earliest": -1399,
    "latest": -1399,
    "note": "Caleb says 45 years have passed since Moses sent him from Kadesh (Joshua 14:7–10). Dated from 1 Kings 6:1, which places the Exodus 480 years before Solomon began the temple (c. 966 BC). Many scholars instead date the Exodus to about 1260 BC."
  },
  "pin": [
    35.289536,
    32.055703
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  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-aa4680a",
  "summary": "The tribes receive their inheritances, and the congregation assembles at Shiloh. Allotment and occupation are not identical: Joshua also describes land that remains to be taken.",
  "context": "Joshua 18 places the assembly at Shiloh and assigns the remaining seven allotments. Joshua 13 describes unpossessed land; 21:43–45 affirms fulfillment and rest. Read these statements together, not as a map of complete occupation.",
  "question": "Why might remembering become harder once the people are settled?",
  "locationNote": "Khirbet Seilun is identified with ancient Shiloh. The symbol marks the assembly locality, not its exact meeting spot. Tribal labels illustrate broad allotments, not surveyed boundaries, complete occupation, or all Israel’s homes.",
  "relatedNote": "Related teaching: Deuteronomy 6 and 8 anticipate prosperity and warn against forgetting God. They do not name Shiloh or supply the tribal boundaries.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 13:1–7",
      "range": [
        6013001,
        6013007
      ],
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      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2013%3A1%E2%80%937&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 13,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 18:1–10",
      "range": [
        6018001,
        6018010
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2018%3A1%E2%80%9310&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "there were still seven tribes of Israel who had not yet received their inheritance."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you put off entering and possessing the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "and divide the land into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory in the north."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "When you have mapped out the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the LORD our God."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "The Levites, however, have no portion among you, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave them beyond the Jordan to the east.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "As the men got up to go out, Joshua commanded them to map out the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will cast lots for you here in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 18,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 21:43–45",
      "range": [
        6021043,
        6021045
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2021%3A43%E2%80%9345&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 21,
          "verse": 43,
          "text": "Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 21,
          "verse": 44,
          "text": "And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand."
        },
        {
          "book": "Joshua",
          "chapter": 21,
          "verse": 45,
          "text": "Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5006010,
        5006012
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 6:10–12",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%206%3A10%E2%80%9312&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        5008007,
        5008018
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:7–18",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%208%3A7%E2%80%9318&version=BSB"
    }
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      "name": "Shiloh",
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      "label": "OpenBible · site identifications",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/aa4680a/shiloh"
    }
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    "sources": [
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        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "src/data/journey.ts"
      }
    ],
    "review": "reviewed",
    "reviewedOn": "2026-09-23"
  },
  "eraName": "Conquest & Judges",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=settlement",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/settlement/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/settlement/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/settlement/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "40601f5bfb6c6412"
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