Joshua 15

Wow, my head is spinning after the reading today. The first half of the chapter was not too bad - a description of Judah's tribal lands border, and a couple of small stories about Caleb. From there, though, it goes into a list of all the cities in the lands controlled by Judah... and that was too much for me. I read through it all, but trying to pronounce some of those town names in my head was quite difficult. The only interesting things I can take from it are 1) that there were a lot of cities and towns for such a (relatively) small area and 2) the men of Judah had not managed to take Jerusalem from the native inhabitants, which was surprising. I wonder how long they tolerated that presence in their midst, given God's command to wipe out the locals.