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Joshua

Chapter 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 Bethaven.

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.

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.

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:

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,

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 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 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.

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 Bethhoglah, and the

valley of Keziz,

22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

24 And Chepharhaammonai, 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.