| Chapter
15 |
| 1 | This
then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even
to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of
the south coast. |
| 2 | And
their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that
looketh southward: |
| 3 | And
it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and
ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron,
and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: |
| 4 | From thence it passed toward Azmon, and
went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the
sea: this shall be your south coast. |
|
5 | And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of
Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at
the uttermost part of Jordan: |
| 6
| And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of
Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: |
| 7 | And the border went up
toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal,
that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the
river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out
thereof were at Enrogel: |
| 8 |
And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south
side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top
of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at
the end of the valley of the giants northward: |
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9 | And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto
the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount
Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim: |
| 10 | And the border compassed from
Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount
Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and
passed on to Timnah: |
| 11 |
And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was
drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel;
and the goings out of the border were at the sea. |
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12 | And the west border was to the great sea, and the
coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according
to their families. |
| 13 |
And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah,
according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the
father of Anak, which city is Hebron. |
| 14 | And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. |
| 15 | And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and
the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher. |
| 16 | And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. |
| 17 | And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the
brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. |
| 18 | And it came to pass, as
she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she
lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? |
| 19 | Who answered, Give me a blessing;
for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave
her the upper springs, and the nether springs. |
|
20 | This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Judah according to their families. |
| 21 | And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children
of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and
Jagur, |
| 22 | And Kinah, and
Dimonah, and Adadah, |
| 23 |
And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, |
|
24 | Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, |
| 25 | And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is
Hazor, |
| 26 | Amam, and
Shema, and Moladah, |
| 27 |
And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet, |
| 28 | And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah, |
| 29 | Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, |
| 30 | And Eltolad, and Chesil,
and Hormah, |
| 31 | And
Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, |
| 32 | And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: |
|
33 | And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and
Ashnah, |
| 34 | And Zanoah,
and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam, |
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35 | Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, |
| 36 | And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and
Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: |
| 37 | Zenan, and Hadashah, and
Migdalgad, |
| 38 | And
Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, |
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39 | Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, |
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40 | And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, |
| 41 | And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and
Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: |
| 42 | Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, |
| 43 | And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and
Nezib, |
| 44 | And Keilah,
and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages: |
| 45 | Ekron, with her towns and her
villages: |
| 46 | From Ekron
even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages: |
| 47 | Ashdod with her towns and her
villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and
the great sea, and the border thereof: |
| 48 | And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and
Socoh, |
| 49 | And Dannah,
and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir, |
|
50 | And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, |
|
51 | And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with
their villages: |
| 52 | Arab,
and Dumah, and Eshean, |
| 53 |
And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah, |
| 54 | And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior;
nine cities with their villages: |
|
55 | Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, |
|
56 | And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, |
| 57 | Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten
cities with their villages: |
| 58
| Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor, |
|
59 | And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
villages: |
| 60 |
Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their
villages: |
| 61 | In the
wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah, |
| 62 | And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six
cities with their villages. |
| 63
| As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of
Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. |
