THE BOOK OF
JOSHUA
CHAPTERS 13-18
1 ¶ Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the
LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet
very much land to be possessed.
2
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines,
and all Geshuri,
3 From Sihor,
which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is
counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and
the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avites:
4
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is
beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
5 And the land of
the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount
Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
6 All the
inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the
children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an
inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
7 ¶ Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance
unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
8
With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the
servant of the LORD gave them;
9 From Aroer,
that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of
the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
10
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in
Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
11 And Gilead,
and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and
all Bashan unto Salcah;
12 All the
kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses
smite, and cast them out.
13 Nevertheless
the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but
the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
14 Only unto the
tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said
unto them.
15 And Moses gave
unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their
families.
16 And their
coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that
is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
17
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and
Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
18 And Jahazah,
and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
19 And
Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
20 And Bethpeor,
and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
21
And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of
the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of
Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon,
dwelling in the country.
22 Balaam also
the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
23 And the border
of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the
inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.
24 And Moses gave
inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
25 And their coast
was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of
Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
26 And from
Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of
Debir;
27
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon,
the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even
unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
28 This is the
inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their
villages.
29
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was
the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.
30 And their
coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and
all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
31 And half
Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of
Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
32 These are the
countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on
the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
33 But unto the
tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel
was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
1 ¶ And these are the countries which the children of
Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
2
By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
3 For Moses had
given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan:
but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
4 For the
children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to
dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
5 As the LORD
commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
6 ¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in
Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said
unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
7 Forty years old
was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out
the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
8
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the
people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
9 And Moses sware
on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be
thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly
followed the LORD my God.
10
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty
and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the
children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day
fourscore and five years old.
11 As yet I am as
strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was
then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
12 Now therefore
give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in
that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced:
if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as
the LORD said.
13
And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron
for an inheritance.
14 Hebron
therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite
unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
15 And the name
of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among
the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
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:
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.
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,
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,
39
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
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.
1 ¶ And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from
Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness
that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
2 And goeth out
from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
3 And goeth down
westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and
to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
4 So the children
of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
5 ¶ And the border of the children of Ephraim according
to their families was thus: even the border of their
inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
6 And the border
went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went
about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
7
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to
Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
8 The border went
out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were
at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by
their families.
9
And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the
inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
10 And they drave
not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the
Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
1 ¶ There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for
he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the
firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
2 There was also a
lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the
children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of
Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and
for the children of Shemida: these were the male children
of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
3 But Zelophehad,
the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh,
had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah,
and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son
of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an
inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the
LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
5 And there fell
ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
6 Because the
daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of
Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
7 ¶ And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to
Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right
hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
8 Now Manasseh
had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the
children of Ephraim;
9 And the coast
descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim
are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the
sea:
10 Southward it
was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and
they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
11 And Manasseh
had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns,
and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants
of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the
inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
12 Yet the
children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
13 Yet it came to
pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them
out.
14 ¶ And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua,
saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I
am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
15 And Joshua
answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of
the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the
children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites
that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are
of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17
And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to
Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not
have one lot only:
18 But the
mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the
outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though
they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
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.