Bible-Reading.comJoshua 14
1And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;
2Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
3For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.
4Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.
5As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.
6Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.
7I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.
8My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.
9And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.
10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.
11And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.
12So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.
13And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.
14So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.
15In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15
1Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.
2Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:
3From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka:
4Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and the end of the limit is at the sea; this will be your limit on the south.
5And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan:
6Then the line goes up to Beth-hoglah, past the north of Beth-arabah, and up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;
7Then the line goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so to the north, in the direction of Gilgal, which is opposite the slope up to Adummim, on the south side of the river: and the line goes on to the waters of En-shemesh, ending at En-rogel:
8Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north:
9And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim):
10Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:
11And out to the side of Ekron to the north: then it is marked out to Shikkeron and on to Mount Baalah, ending at Jabneel; the end of the line is at the sea.
12And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great Sea. This is the line going round the land marked out for the children of Judah, by their families.
13And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron.
14And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.
15From there he went up against the people of Debir: (now the name of Debir before that was Kiriath-sepher.)
16And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.
17And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it: so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.
18Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?
19And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.
20This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their families.
21The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur;
22And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah;
23And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan;
24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;
25And Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (which is Hazor);
26Amam, and Shema, and Moladah;
27And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet;
28And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;
29Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem;
30And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah;
31And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah;
32And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.
33In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;
34And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam;
35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;
36And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.
37Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad;
38And Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel;
39Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;
40And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish;
41And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.
42Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan;
43And Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib;
44And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.
45Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;
46From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.
47Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.
48And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;
49And Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (which is Debir);
50And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim;
51And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.
52Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan;
53And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah;
54And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.
55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;
56And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah;
57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.
58Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;
59And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.
60Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places.
61In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;
62And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.
63And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
Joshua 16
1And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;
2And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;
3And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.
4And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.
5And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher;
6The line goes out to the west at Michmethath on the north; then turning to the east to Taanath-shiloh, going past it on the east of Janoah;
7And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.
8From Tappuah the line goes on to the west to the river of Kanah; ending at the sea. This is the heritage of the children of Ephraim by their families;
9Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places.
10And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
Joshua 17
1And this was the part marked out for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the oldest son of Joseph. As for Machir, the oldest son of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war he had Gilead and Bashan.
2And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their heritage was given to them by 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.
3But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers.
5And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan;
6Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh.
7And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah.
8The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but Tappuah on the edge of Manasseh was the property of the children of Ephraim.
9And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea:
10To the south it is Ephraim's, and to the north it is Manasseh's, and the sea is his limit; and they are touching Asher on the north, and Issachar on the east.
11In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills.
12But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
13And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.
14Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.
15Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.
16And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.
17Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only,
18For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
Joshua 18
1And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.
2But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.
3Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
4Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.
5And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.
6And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.
7For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.
8So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.
9So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.
10And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
11And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.
13And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower.
14And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part.
15And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah:
16And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel;
17And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;
18And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;
19And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.
20And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides.
21And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz
22And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el
23And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah
24And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
25Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth
26And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah
27And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah
28And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.
Joshua 19
1And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.
2And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah
3And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem
4And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah
5And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah
6And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;
7Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;
8And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.
9The heritage of Simeon was taken out of Judah's stretch of land, for Judah's part was more than they had need of, so the heritage of the children of Simeon was inside their heritage.
10And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid;
11And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;
12Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;
13And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; ending at Rimmon which goes as far as Neah;
14And the line goes round it on the north to Hannathon, ending at the valley of Iphtah-el;
15And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.
16This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
17For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families;
18And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem
19And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath
20And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez
21And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;
22And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.
23This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
24And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.
25And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph
26And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;
27Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul
28And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon;
29And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;
30And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.
31This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
32For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families;
33And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan;
34And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east.
35And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth
36And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor
37And Kedesh and Edrei and En-Hazor
38And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.
39This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
40For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;
41And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh
42And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah
43And Elon and Timnah and Ekron
44And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath
45And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;
46And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.
47(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)
48This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
49So the distribution of the land and its limits was complete; and the children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a heritage among them;
50By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place.
51These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.
Joshua 20
1And the Lord said to Joshua,
2Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,
3So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.
4And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.
5And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.
6And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.
7So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
8And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
9These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.