At the beginning of Joshua 18, five tribes (the two half-tribes of Joseph forming two rather than one) have received their allotment of land; seven remain. (Again, no Levi.) The text even draws attention to the number: “seven tribes' inheritance had not yet been apportioned” (v. 2).

Mark 6-8: Feeding of the 5,000 then the 4,000. Jesus starts with five loaves in the first then seven in the second. So that Jesus, in feeding the multitudes—arrayed as men of war, just as the tribes were under Joshua (Yeshua)—is reapportioning the land, dividing it again as Israel’s martial king and judge (having earlier divided the waters of the Jordan in order to enter the land, to re-gather God’s covenant people). Yet instead of doing so alongside a second Eleazar, he himself is also the priest who knows the will of God in the matter.