May
17
Joshua
15, 16
Jos
15:1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to
their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of
Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
Jos
15:2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea,
from the bay that looks southward;
Jos
15:3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed
along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed
along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;
Jos
15:4 and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt;
and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
Jos
15:5 The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the
Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea
at the end of the Jordan.
Jos
15:6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the
north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben.
Jos
15:7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so
northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of
Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed
along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
Jos
15:8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the
side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the
border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley
of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of
Rephaim northward.
Jos
15:9 The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring
of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount
Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath
Jearim);
Jos
15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount
Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the
same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by
Timnah;
Jos
15:11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and
the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah,
and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea.
Jos
15:12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the
border of the children of Judah according to their families.
Jos
15:13 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is
Hebron).
Jos
15:14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman,
and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Jos
15:15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of
Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
Jos
15:16 Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it,
to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
Jos
15:17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and
he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Jos
15:18 It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father
fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What
do you want?"
Jos
15:19 She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in
the land of the South, give me also springs of water." He gave
her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Jos
15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
according to their families.
Jos
15:21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Jos
15:22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
Jos
15:23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
Jos
15:24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
Jos
15:25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor),
Jos
15:26 Amam, Shema, Moladah,
Jos
15:27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
Jos
15:28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
Jos
15:29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
Jos
15:30 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
Jos
15:31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
Jos
15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are
twenty-nine, with their villages.
Jos
15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Jos
15:34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
Jos
15:35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
Jos
15:36 Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
Jos
15:38 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
Jos
15:39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
Jos
15:40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
Jos
15:41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities
with their villages.
Jos
15:42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
Jos
15:43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
Jos
15:44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Jos
15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
Jos
15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of
Ashdod, with their villages.
Jos
15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its
villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its
coastline.
Jos
15:48 In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
Jos
15:49 Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is Debir),
Jos
15:50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
Jos
15:51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Jos
15:52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
Jos
15:53 Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
Jos
15:54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
Jos
15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
Jos
15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Jos
15:58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
Jos
15:59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
villages.
Jos
15:60 Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages.
Jos
15:61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
Jos
15:62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their
villages.
Jos
15:63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live
with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Jos
16:1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at
Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness,
going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
Jos
16:2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border
of the Archites to Ataroth;
Jos
16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to
the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the
sea.
Jos
16:4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.
Jos
16:5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to
their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth
Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
Jos
16:6 The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The
border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it
on the east of Janoah.
Jos
16:7 It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to
Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Jos
16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of
Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Ephraim according to their families;
Jos
16:9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children
of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
Jos
16:10 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but
the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have
become servants to do forced labor.