Joshua
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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.
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