Joshua 18
The Territory Allotted
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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.
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And there remained among the children
of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their
inheritance.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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 Manas'seh,
have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which
Moses the servant of the LORD gave
them.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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-a'ven.
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And the border went over from thence
toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward;
and the border descended to At'aroth-a'dar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-ho'ron.
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And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-ho'ron southward; and the goings out
thereof were at Kir'jath-ba'al, which is Kir'jath-je'arim, a
city of the children of Judah: this was the west
quarter.
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And the south quarter was from the
end of Kir'jath-je'arim, and the border went out on the west, and
went out to the well of waters of Nephto'ah:
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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
Jeb'usi on the south, and descended to En-ro'gel,
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and was drawn from the north, and went
forth to En-she'mesh, and went forth toward Geli'loth, which is over against the going up of Adum'mim, and descended to
the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
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and passed along toward the side over
against Ar'abah northward, and went down unto Ar'abah:
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and the border passed along to the side
of Beth-hog'lah 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.
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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.
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Now the cities of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and
Beth-hog'lah, and the valley of Keziz,
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and Beth-ar'abah, and Zemara'im, and
Beth-el,
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and Avim, and Parah, and
Ophrah,
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and Che'phar-ha-am'monai, and Ophni, and
Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Gibeon, and Ramah, and
Beer'oth,
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and Mizpeh, and Chephi'rah, and
Mozah,
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and Rekem, and Ir'peel, and
Tar'alah,
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and Zelah, Eleph, and Jeb'usi, which is Jerusalem, Gib'e-ath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities
with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children
of Benjamin according to their families.
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