Chapter 18
1The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the
land was subdued before them.
2There remained among the children of
Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
3Joshua
said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to
possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
4Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they
shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their
inheritance; and they shall come to me.
5They shall divide it into seven
portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of
Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
6You shall describe
the land into seven portions, and bring the description here to me;
and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
7For the Levites
have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance:
and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh
gave them.
8The men arose, and went: and Joshua charged those who went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and
come again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.
9The men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities
into seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
10Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Joshua
divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
11The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to
their families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of
Judah and the children of Joseph.
12Their border on the north quarter was
from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north,
and went up through the hill country westward; and the goings out of it were
at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
13The border passed along from there to
Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went
down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon
the lower.
14The border extended there, and turned about on the
west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon
southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath
Jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
15The south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim; and
the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of
Nephtoah;
16and the border went down to the uttermost part of the
mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the
valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the
side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel;
17and it
extended northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth,
which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of
Bohan the son of Reuben;
18and it passed along to the side over against
the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah;
19and the border
passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the
border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan:
this was the south border.
20The Jordan was the border of it on the east
quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders
of it round about, according to their families.
21Now the cities of the
tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho,
and Beth Hoglah, and Emek Keziz,
22and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and
Bethel,
23and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24and Chephar Ammoni, and
Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
25Gibeon, and Ramah,
and Beeroth,
26and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
27and Rekem, and
Irpeel, and Taralah,
28and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is
Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their
villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to
their families.
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