여호수아 17장

여호수아 17장은 이스라엘 백성이 가나안 땅을 분배받는 과정에서 므낫세 지파에게 주어진 기업에 대한 내용을 중심으로 전개됩니다.

므낫세 자손에게 주어진 기업

1. Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war. 2 And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.

 

 

요셉의 장자 므낫세가 받은 땅 리스트 같아 보이네요. 므낫세 장자 마길의 자손은 전사였고, 길르앗과 바산 땅을 받았습니다. 마길의 아들 길르앗의 자손들도 땅을 받았습니다. 민수기 27장에도 등장하는 내용인데요. 슬로브핫의 딸들이 아버지가 아들이 없이 죽자, 딸들이 자기들도 달라고 해서 받아내는 내용이 나오죠.

 

여호수아 16장 읽기

불안의 씨앗 여호수아 16장

 

3 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4 They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, " The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers." So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. 5 Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan, 6 because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh. 

 

 

 여호수아의 중재

7 The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southwards to the inhabitants of En-tappuah. 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim. 9 THen the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea, 10 the land to the south being Ephraim's and that to the north being Manasseh's, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar. 11 Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages: the third is Naphath. 12 Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 13 Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, but did not utterly drive them out.

 

 

므낫세 지파가 받은 땅은 서쪽 요단강 지역까지 포함되는데 그들은 할당된 땅이 자신들에게 너무 좁다고 불평하였습니다. 그러자 여호수아가 그들에게 숲이 우거진 에브라임 산지를 개간하라고 합니다. 불평하지 말고 개척할 수 있는 능력이 있다면 더 많은 땅을 확보하라는데요. 이에 므낫세는 거기에 가나안 족속이 철 병거를 가졌기 때문에 쫓아낼 수 없다고 말합니다. 

 

절반의 영광 절반의 비극

14 Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I AM a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?" 15 And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you." 16 The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel." 17 Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to EPhraim and Manasseh, power. YOu shall not have one allotment only, 18 but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."

 

인상적인 것은 마지막 구절에 가나안들이 철기를 가지고 있다는 점입니다. 이스라엘 민족이 철기를 가지고 있는 줄 알았는데 이스라엘 백성은 철기를 갖추지 못한 상태에서 가나안의 철기 문명과 맞서 싸운 거였네요. 결국 기술보다 영적 우위를 내세우며 무슨 돈키호테도 아니고 철이 아닌 믿음으로 승리를 추구하였네요.