| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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, |
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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 Pharah, 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. |
