Joshua
Chapter Eighteen
1 ¶ Now the whole
congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set
up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.
2 ¶ But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which
had not yet received their inheritance.
3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: "How long will you neglect
to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?
4 "Pick out from among you three men for each tribe, and I will send them;
they shall rise and go through the land, survey it according to their inheritance,
and come back to me.
5 "And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall remain in their
territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory
on the north.
6 "You shall therefore survey the land in seven parts and bring the survey
here 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, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received
their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of
the LORD gave them."
8 Then the men arose to go away; and Joshua charged those who went to survey
the land, saying, "Go, walk through the land, survey it, and come back
to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh."
9 So the men went, passed through the land, and wrote the survey in a book in
seven parts by cities; and they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
10 Then Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there Joshua
divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11 ¶ Now the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according
to their families, and the territory of their lot came out between the children
of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 Their border on the north side began at the Jordan, and the border went up
to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the mountains westward;
it ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven.
13 The border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz (which is
Bethel) southward; and the border descended to Ataroth Addar, near the hill
that lies on the south side of Lower Beth Horon.
14 Then the border extended around the west side to the south, from the hill
that lies before Beth Horon southward; and it ended at Kirjath Baal (which is
Kirjath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west side.
15 The south side began at the end of Kirjath Jearim, and the border extended
on the west and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
16 Then the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the
Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of the Rephaim on the north,
descended to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite city on the south,
and descended to En Rogel.
17 And it went around from the north, went out to En Shemesh, and extended toward
Geliloth, which is before the Ascent of Adummim, and descended to the stone
of Bohan the son of Reuben.
18 Then it passed along toward the north side of Arabah, and went down to Arabah.
19 And the border passed along to the north side of Beth Hoglah; then the border
ended at the north bay at the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This
was the southern boundary.
20 The Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin, according to its boundaries all around, according to their
families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their
families, were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23 Avim, Parah, Ophrah,
24 Chephar Haammoni, Ophni, and Gaba: twelve cities with their villages;
25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
26 Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah,
27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
28 Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen
cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin
according to their families.
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