Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joshua 17:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
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Quick Meaning
Joshua 17:1 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to…”.
Read It With
- Joshua 17:1–6
Read Joshua 17:1 with 17:1–6. Joshua 17:1 advances “Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their Inheritance” with the textual step “There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Manasseh's clan allotment names warrior Makir and other male lines, then Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah successfully invoke the LORD's command to receive land among their uncles.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their Inheritance advances the book by concentrating on named daughters, Numbers 27 and 36, women's property claim, public adjudication, and patriarchal limits. At Joshua 17:1, this verse contributes the following distinct step: Joshua 17:1 advances “Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their Inheritance” with the textual step “There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to…”.
What Remains True
Joshua 17:1 contributes this bounded enduring truth: Faithful reading of “Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their Inheritance” requires truth about the unit's full movement, accountability under covenant, protection of vulnerable people, and refusal to turn ancient privilege or violence into modern entitlement.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Joshua 17:1, practice the transferable good in “Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their Inheritance”—careful memory, accountable courage, kept commitments, fair process, shared responsibility, or protected refuge as the unit warrants—without repeating its ancient violence, hierarchy, dispossession, or coercion.
Continue in Context
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Read Joshua 17:1-6 — Zelophehad's Daughters Receive Their InheritanceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 17:1-6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 17:1–6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joshua with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew, textual, translation, list, number, geographical, historical, and cross-reference notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Joshua PDF, printed pp. 441-442, translation and translator notes on 17:1–6
Open source ↗scholarly commentary article
Joshua
Richard D. Nelson
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, edited by John Barton and John Muddiman, 2001
Supports: Whole-book movement, literary boundaries, composition, history and archaeology limits, geography, theology, and material interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: Nelson, 'Joshua,' Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 171-172, discussion of 17:1–6
Open source ↗