The Book of Joshua 18

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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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 Beth-aven ⚑

¹³ And the border went over from thence toward Luz to the side of Luz which is Beth-el southward and the border descended to Ataroth-adar near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon ⚑

¹⁴ And the border was drawn thence and compassed the corner of the sea southward from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal which is Kirjath-jearim a city of the children of Judah this was the west quarter ⚑

¹⁵ And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim 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 En-rogel ⚑

¹⁷ And was drawn from the north and went forth to En-shemesh 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 Beth-hoglah 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 Beth-hoglah and the valley of Keziz ⚑

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain