Familiar names (Joshua 19)

“Simeon’s homeland included Beersheba. Sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, …”

Ancient towns with unfamiliar names inhabited by thousands and thousands of people whose names aren’t listed—generation after generation. So many people.

When the Lord looks down from heaven, He certainly sees the vast number of Adam’s descendants (now billions and not thousands). But he doesn’t really see a mass of people. That is how we, as finite human beings, tend to see it. No, the Lord sees individuals with familiar names.