Chapter
18
- 18:1
- And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation
there. And the land was subdued before them.
- 18:2
- And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes,
which had not yet received their inheritance.
- 18:3
- And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are
ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your
fathers hath given you?
- 18:4
- Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will
send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and
describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall
come again to me.
- 18:5
- And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide
in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide
in their coasts on the north.
- 18:6
- Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and
bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for
you here before the LORD our God.
- 18:7
- But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood
of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half
the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond
Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave
them.
- 18:8
- And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them
that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through
the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may
here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
- 18:9
- And the men went and passed through the land, and described
it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua
to the host at Shiloh.
- 18:10
- And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD:
and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel
according to their divisions.
- 18:11
- And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came
up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came
forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
- 18:12
- And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the
border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and
went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof
were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
- 18:13
- And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side
of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended
to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of
the nether Bethhoron.
- 18:14
- And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner
of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron
southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which
is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was
the west quarter.
- 18:15
- And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim,
and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well
of waters of Nephtoah:
- 18:16
- And the border came down to the end of the mountain that
lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in
the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the
valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended
to Enrogel,
- 18:17
- And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh,
and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going
up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben,
- 18:18
- And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward,
and went down unto Arabah:
- 18:19
- And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward:
and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the
salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
- 18:20
- And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was
the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof
round about, according to their families.
- 18:21
- Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according
to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley
of Keziz,
- 18:22
- And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
- 18:23
- And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,
- 18:24
- And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities
with their villages:
- 18:25
- Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
- 18:26
- And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
- 18:27
- And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
- 18:28
- And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath,
and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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