Joshua, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said
to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very
much land to be possessed.
{13:2} "This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites; {13:3} from the Shihor, which is
before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted
as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also
the Avvim, {13:4} on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the
Amorites; {13:5} and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon,
toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance
of Hamath; {13:6} all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon
to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded you. {13:7} Now therefore divide this
land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of
Manasseh." {13:8} With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward,
even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them: {13:9} from Aroer,
that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is
in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
{13:10} and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned
in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon; {13:11} and
Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all
Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; {13:12} all the kingdom of Og
in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of
the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them
out. {13:13} Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the
Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the
midst of Israel to this day. {13:14} Only he gave no inheritance to
the tribe of Levi. The offerings of the LORD, the God of Israel, made
by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him. {13:15} Moses gave to
the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
{13:16} Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley
of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and
all the plain by Medeba; {13:17} Heshbon, and all its cities that are
in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, {13:18} Jahaz,
Kedemoth, Mephaath, {13:19} Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the
mount of the valley, {13:20} Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth
Jeshimoth, {13:21} all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck
with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes
of Sihon, who lived in the land. {13:22} The children of Israel alse
killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword,
among the rest of their slain.
{13:23} The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the
Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according
to their families, the cities and its villages.
{13:24} Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad,
according to their families. {13:25} Their border was Jazer, and all
the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to
Aroer that is before Rabbah; {13:26} and from Heshbon to Ramath
Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; {13:27}
and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the
rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to
the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan
eastward. {13:28} This is the inheritance of the children of Gad
according to their families, the cities and its villages.
{13:29} Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It
was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their
families. {13:30} Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in
Bashan, sixty cities. {13:31} Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the
cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir
the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir
according to their families.
{13:32} These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the
plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. {13:33} But to
the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD, the God of
Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
{14:1} These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took
in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of
Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the
children of Israel, distributed to them, {14:2} by the lot of their
inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and
for the half-tribe. {14:3} For Moses had given the inheritance of the
two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he
gave no inheritance among them. {14:4} For the children of Joseph were
two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the
Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for
their livestock and for their property. {14:5} The children of Israel
did as the LORD commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
{14:6} Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal.
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the
thing that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and
concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. {14:7} I was forty years old when
Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out
the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart. {14:8}
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the
people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God. {14:9} Moses swore
on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you walked shall be an
inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have
wholly followed the LORD my God.'
{14:10} "Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to
Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am
eighty-five years old, today. {14:11} As yet I am as strong today as I
was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is
my strength now for war, to go out and to come in. {14:12} Now
therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that
day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great
and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I
shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke."
{14:13} Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for an inheritance. {14:14} Therefore Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day;
because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel. {14:15} Now
the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man
among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.
{15:1} The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to
their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of
Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. {15:2} Their south
border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that
looks southward; {15:3} and it went out southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh
Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about
to Karka; {15:4} and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook
of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south
border. {15:5} The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of
the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the
sea at the end of the Jordan. {15:6} The border went up to Beth
Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border
went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. {15:7} The border
went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking
toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on
the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of
En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel. {15:8} The border went up by the
valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the
same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain
that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the
farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward. {15:9} The border
extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of
Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border
extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim); {15:10} and the
border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed
along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon),
and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; {15:11} and
the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border
extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out
at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. {15:12}
The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border
of the children of Judah according to their families.
{15:13} To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is
Hebron). {15:14} Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. {15:15} He went up against
the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath
Sepher. {15:16} Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." {15:17} Othniel
the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him
Achsah his daughter as wife. {15:18} It happened, when she came, that
she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey,
and Caleb said, "What do you want?"
{15:19} She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in
the land of the South, give me also springs of water."
He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
{15:20} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families. {15:21} The farthest cities of the
tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South
were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, {15:22} Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, {15:23}
Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, {15:24} Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, {15:25} Hazor
Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor), {15:26} Amam, Shema,
Moladah, {15:27} Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, {15:28} Hazar
Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, {15:29} Baalah, Iim, Ezem, {15:30}
Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, {15:31} Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, {15:32}
Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine,
with their villages. {15:33} In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
{15:34} Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, {15:35} Jarmuth, Adullam,
Socoh, Azekah, {15:36} Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or
Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages. {15:37} Zenan,
Hadashah, Migdal Gad, {15:38} Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, {15:39}
Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, {15:40} Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, {15:41}
Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their
villages. {15:42} Libnah, Ether, Ashan, {15:43} Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
{15:44} Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
{15:45} Ekron, with its towns and its villages; {15:46} from Ekron
even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their
villages. {15:47} Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns
and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its
coastline. {15:48} In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, {15:49}
Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir), {15:50} Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
{15:51} Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
{15:52} Arab, Dumah, Eshan, {15:53} Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
{15:54} Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine
cities with their villages. {15:55} Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah, {15:56}
Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, {15:57} Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities
with their villages. {15:58} Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, {15:59} Maarath,
Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. {15:60}
Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with
their villages. {15:61} In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin,
Secacah, {15:62} Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities
with their villages.
{15:63} As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with
the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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