As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
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Gill's Exposition
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,.... Particularly with respect to the division of the land, and making provision for the Levites; this they did by their heads and…
Adam Clarke
They divided the land - This work was begun some time before at Gilgal, and was finished some time after at Shiloh. It must have required a very considerable time to make all the geographical…
The historian, having in the foregoing chapter given an account of the disposal of the countries on the other side Jordan, now comes to tell us what they did with the countries in the land of Canaan.…
Cambridge Bible
they divided the land The division was not finished at once. See below, ch. Jos 18:1. But that is not the point here. The section contains the general introduction to the distribution of the land.