May
19
Joshua
19, 20
Jos
19:1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was
in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Jos
19:2 They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
Jos
19:3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,
Jos
19:4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
Jos
19:5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
Jos
19:6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their
villages;
Jos
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;
Jos
19:8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath
Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families.
Jos
19:9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of
the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was
too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance
in the midst of their inheritance.
Jos
19:10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to
their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
Jos
19:11 Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to
Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
Jos
19:12 It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border
of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
Jos
19:13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to
Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
Jos
19:14 The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it
ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
Jos
19:15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve
cities with their villages.
Jos
19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according
to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of
Issachar according to their families.
Jos
19:18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
Jos
19:19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
Jos
19:20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
Jos
19:21 Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
Jos
19:22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh.
Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
Jos
19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Jos
19:24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families.
Jos
19:25 Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,
Jos
19:26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and
to Shihorlibnath.
Jos
19:27 It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to
Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and
Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,
Jos
19:28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.
Jos
19:29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and
the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of
Achzib;
Jos
19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their
villages.
Jos
19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for
the children of Naphtali according to their families.
Jos
19:33 Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim,
Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
Jos
19:34 The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from
there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to
Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
Jos
19:35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath,
Chinnereth,
Jos
19:36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
Jos
19:37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
Jos
19:38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages.
Jos
19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Jos
19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families.
Jos
19:41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Jos
19:42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
Jos
19:43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
Jos
19:44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
Jos
19:45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
Jos
19:46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
Jos
19:47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for
the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it,
and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived
therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Jos
19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos
19:49 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua
the son of Nun in the midst of them.
Jos
19:50 According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city
which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and
he built the city, and lived there.
Jos
19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of
the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh
before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an
end of dividing the land.
Jos
20:1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
Jos
20:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the
cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
Jos
20:3 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or
unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge
from the avenger of blood.
Jos
20:4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the
entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears
of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with
them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
Jos
20:5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his
neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.
Jos
20:6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to
his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.' "
Jos
20:7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of
Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Jos
20:8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in
the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in
Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe
of Manasseh.
Jos
20:9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel,
and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any
person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of
the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.