What an awe must have been upon the minds of the Canaanites yet remaining around them, that none of them assaulted them, as they walked through the land. Such, Reader, is the case now very frequently in the Christian's walk. So true is that Scripture, When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7. But passing over this, as the inferior consideration in those verses, what I would beg the Reader to remark with me is, Joshua in this instance, acting as the type of Jesus. Is it not Jesus who hath obtained our inheritance for us, by his conquest over our enemies? And is it not the same Jesus who ever lives to be the distributor of his own gifts? Sweet and precious thought to the believer! I shall not only have that very mansion which Jesus hath purchased for me, and which he is gone before to take possession of in my name, and which he knows to be the very one most suited for me; but what will render it doubly precious, he himself will put me in possession of it with his own dear hand. Nay, I shall sit down with him on his throne, for so the promise runs. Revelation 3:21.
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Joshua 18:8-10
8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.