Bible, King James Version
Joshua
Josh.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.
[2] And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
[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?
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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 Beth-aven.
[13] And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to
the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border
descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south
side of the nether Beth-horon.
[14] And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the
corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before
Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at
Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of
Judah: this was the west quarter.
[15] And the south quarter was from the end of
Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out
to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
[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 En-rogel,
[17] And was drawn from the north, and went forth to
En-shemesh, 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] And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
northward, and went down unto Arabah:
[19] And the border passed along to the side of
Beth-hoglah 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.
[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.
[21] Now the cities of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and
Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
[22] And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
[23] And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
[24] And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve
cities with their villages:
[25] Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
[26] And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
[27] And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
[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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