by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
Many of the old commentators (Masius, Calnet, Dodd, Clarke, etc.) have stressed the wisdom of God as attested by the casting of lots for the inheritance of each tribe.  "The portion fell to each tribe exactly as Jacob had prophesied centuries earlier in  Genesis 49.  Providence equally directed both Jacob's predictions and the casting of lots."[10]  Again, to paraphrase Clarke's words: seeing that the lot and the prophesies so well corresponded, would it not be insolence and stupidity not to acknowledge the inspiration of God in the words of Jacob and of Moses, and also in the guidance of the casting lots for the tribal inheritances?