The tribe of Simeon,
and their portion of the Promised Land:
And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.-Joshua 19:1-9***Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi. Joshua was an Israelite from the tribe of Ephraim. Miriam., Aaron and Moses were descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. Joshua was descended from Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, their firstborn son Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim. In Egypt, Jacob proclaimed Ephraim and his older brother Manasseh to be his own sons. When Joseph was 30 years old, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, proclaimed Joseph to be second-in-command. When Jacob was 130 years old, he moved with his family from Canaan to Egypt. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and his family buried his body in Canaan, and 110-year-old Joseph and his siblings were dead, the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, the Lord God sent them to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. During the 40-year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died. Shortly thereafter, the Lord God gave Moses commands for dividing the Promised Land. The amount of land each tribe inherited was to based on the number of people in the tribe, and the location of each tribe's inherited land was to be determined by the casting of lots. The whole decision of each lot cast, according to the divinely inspired writer of Proverbs 16:33, widely regarded to be King Solomon, was from the Lord God. Reuben was the 1st son born to Jacob and Leah. Gad was the 1st son born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Sometime after the Lord God gave Moses the commands for dividing the land, Israelites from the tribes of Reuben and Gad said that they wanted to settle on some of the fertile land that the Israelites had already passed through and conquered during their journey to the Promised Land. Moses gave the Reubenites and Gadites and 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh permission to make their homes on the land as requested. Thus, only the tribes of Jacob and Leah's sons Simeon, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, and the tribe of Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin, and the tribe of Ephraim, and the other 1/2 of the tribe of Manasseh, and the tribe of Jacob and Zilpah's son Asher, and the tribes of Dan and Naphtali, from the sons born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were given their inheritances by Joshua, and Eleazar the priest, and the 10 tribal leaders appointed by the Lord God. The tribe of Simeon, the smallest tribe at the time, received some of the land that was too large for the tribe of Judah. The tribe of Levi did not receive an inheritance inasmuch as the Lord God proclaimed that he was their inheritance. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua was Moses' successor and led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, 32:1-36:13, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 2 Chronicles, Proverbs 16:1-33, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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