The tribe of Naphtali and their
inheritance in the Promised Land:
The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, And Adamah and Ramah, and Hazor, and Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor, and Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.-Joshua 19:32-39***Naphtali was the 2nd son born to Jacob (Israel) and maidservant Bilhah. Dan was Jacob and Bilhah's firstborn son. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and his 1st wife Leah. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and maidservant Zilpah. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. Over 500 years after the Lord God promised to give Canaan, land inhabited by idolaters, to Jacob, and to Jacob's father Isaac, and to Isaac's father Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to their descendants, Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the Promised Land. Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim, descended from Joseph and his wife Asenath, and Joseph and Asenath's 2nd born son Ephraim. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Jacob proclaimed Ephraim and Ephraim's older brother Manasseh to be his own sons. Eleazar the priest was from the tribe of Levi. Joshua, Eleazar and a leader from each tribe allotted the land according to the commands that the Lord God gave Moses before Moses went upon Mount Nebo, and the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died was divinely buried. The size of each tribe's land depended upon the size of the tribe, and the location of each tribe's land was determined by the casting of lots, according to the commands of the Lord God. Proverbs 16:33 reveals that the whole decision of lots cast is from the Lord God. Before crossing the Jordan River, the tribe of Reuben and the tribe of Gad and 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh received permission to live upon the same land that Moses and Moses' older brother Aaron had led the Israelites through for 40 years after leading them away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur. Rehoboam, from the tribe of Judah, was the 4th king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land. After Rehoboam gave a specific answer, the Israelites split into 2 kingdoms, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of Rehoboam's father King Solomon, the 3rd king to reign. Judah was the nation in the south, Jerusalem was the royal city, and Rehoboam was the 1st king to reign. Israel was the northern nation, Samaria was the final royal city, and Jeroboam, the son born to Nebat and Zeruah, was the 1st king to reign. King Pekah was the 18th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel. During Pekah's 20-year reign, King Tiglath-pileser, ruler of Assyria, conquered much of the northern nation of Israel, including the portion allotted to the tribe of Naphtali and its district of Galilee. Many Israelites were captured and forced to Assyria. The Lord God allowed the Assyrians to capture and force into exile the Reubenites, Gadites, and 1/2 the tribe of Manasseh on the other side of the Jordan River, due to each tribe's idolatry. King Hoshea was the 19th king to rule the northern nation of Israel. During the 9th year of Hoshea's reign, the Assyrians conquered Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Rehoboam's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah. During Jehoiakim's 11-year reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem and King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the son born to Jehoiakim and Nehushta, was the 18th king to rule Judah. During Jehoiachin's 3-month reign, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites, including Jehoiachin, his wives and mother, to Babylon. During the 11th year of the reign of Jehoiakim's brother King Zedekiah (Mattaniah), the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Over 500 years after Israelites began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, 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, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Before and after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, the Roman Empire was ruling the land whereupon the kingdoms of the Israelites previously stood. Nazareth in Galilee was the hometown of Joseph and Mary.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 26:1-65, 27:12-23, 33:1-34:29, 36:1-13, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, 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, 5:1-26, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26