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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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,
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| 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 Pharah, and Ophrah, |
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24 | And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and
Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: |
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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. |
