Joshua 22
The tribes of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh insulted the other tribes. I don’t understand the complaint, but they settled the dispute without war, which must be the reason for including the story in the Bible.
Joshua 23
Joshua “summoned all Israel—their elders,leaders, judges and officials—and said to them:
... Remember how I have allotted … all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The Lord your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.
Seems to me, we could replace the words, the Lord your God, with the word, Allah, and the quote would become an admonition for Palestinians.
Joshua 24 is a continuation of Joshua 23 with a summary of Israelite history from Abraham to finally entering into the promised land. It makes me wonder about Psalm 137.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Which came first, the conquest of the land or the songs of Zion?´´
Genesis 23:6 says that Abraham paid “four hundred shekels of silver” for a burial plot. Joshua 24:32 says that Jacob paid a “hundred pieces of silver” for a burial plot.
Tradition says that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are buried at the Cave of the Patriarch in present day Hebron in the Palestinian Authority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs