1. All of the Israelites gathered together at Shiloh. There they set up the Meeting Tent. The Israelites controlled that country. They had defeated all the enemies there.
2. But there were still seven tribes of Israel that had not yet received the land God had promised them.
3. So Joshua said to the Israelites: “Why do you wait so long to take your land? The Lord, the God of your fathers, has given this land to you.
4. So each tribe should choose three men. I will send them out to study the land. They will describe in writing the land their tribe wants as its share. Then they will come back to me.
5. They will divide the land into seven parts. The people of Judah will keep their land in the south. The people of Joseph will keep their land in the north.