Joshua 18:23

Study note

Setting — Joshua records the territorial inheritance assigned by lot to the tribe of Benjamin during the final distribution of the Promised Land. The verse functions as a catalog entry within a larger boundary list.

The words — The text lists Avvites (H5761), denoting a specific clan or people, and Ophrah (H6084), a designated settlement. These Hebrew terms identify exact locations included in the allotment.

The thread — The name Ophrah appears again in 1 Samuel 13:17 as a geographic marker near Philistine raiding routes. The verse maintains a recurring location within the broader tribal allocation narrative.

Why it lands — The passage demands precise recognition of how land was divided and assigned to specific families. It requires the reader to track named settlements within the structured allocation of tribal inheritance.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.