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Today's Bible Reading :: Joshua 12 - 15 (ESV)

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Joshua 12

Kings Defeated by Moses

(cf. Num 21:21–35 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:4 - and Og[fn] king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5 - and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:6 - Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated by Joshua

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:10 - the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:11 - the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:12 - the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:13 - the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:14 - the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:15 - the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:16 - the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:17 - the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:18 - the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:19 - the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:20 - the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:21 - the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:22 - the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:23 - the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,[fn] one;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:24 - the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.
ESV Footnotes
Septuagint; Hebrew the boundary of Og
Septuagint; Hebrew Gilgal

Joshua 13

Land Still to Be Conquered

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:2 - This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:9 - from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:11 - and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:12 - all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:13 - Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:15 - And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:16 - So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:18 - and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:19 - and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:20 - and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:22 - Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24 - Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26 - and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 - And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:30 - Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:33 - But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew With it
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew Lidebir

Joshua 14

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:1 - These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2 - Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:5 - The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13 - Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.[fn] (Arba[fn] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
ESV Footnotes
Kiriath-arba means the city of Arba
Hebrew He

Joshua 15

The Allotment for Judah

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3 - It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 - passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6 - And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:9 - Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:11 - The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.
(Jdg 1:11–15)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:13 - According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:14 - And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:15 - And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:16 - And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:17 - And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:19 - She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:22 - Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:23 - Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:24 - Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:25 - Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:26 - Amam, Shema, Moladah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:27 - Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:28 - Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:29 - Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:30 - Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:31 - Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:32 - Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:33 - And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:34 - Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:35 - Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:36 - Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:37 - Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:38 - Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:39 - Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:40 - Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:41 - Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:42 - Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:43 - Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:44 - Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:45 - Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:46 - from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:48 - And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:49 - Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:50 - Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:51 - Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:52 - Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:53 - Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:54 - Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:55 - Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:56 - Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:57 - Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:58 - Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:59 - Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 - Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:61 - In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:62 - Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:63 - But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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