Joshua 19 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Territory of Simeon

Jos 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.

Jos 19:2

Jos 19:2And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah

Jos 19:3

Jos 19:3And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

Jos 19:4

Jos 19:4And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah

Jos 19:5

Jos 19:5And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah

Jos 19:6

Jos 19:6And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;

Jos 19:7

Jos 19:7Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

Jos 19:8

Jos 19:8And 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.

Jos 19:9

Jos 19:9The 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.

Territory of Zebulun

Jos 19:10

Jos 19:10And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid;

Jos 19:11

Jos 19:11And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;

Jos 19:12

Jos 19:12Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;

Jos 19:13

Jos 19:13And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; ending at Rimmon which goes as far as Neah;

Jos 19:14

Jos 19:14And the line goes round it on the north to Hannathon, ending at the valley of Iphtah-el;

Jos 19:15

Jos 19:15And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

Jos 19:16

Jos 19:16This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Territory of Issachar

Jos 19:17

Jos 19:17For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families;

Jos 19:18

Jos 19:18And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem

Jos 19:19

Jos 19:19And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath

Jos 19:20

Jos 19:20And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez

Jos 19:21

Jos 19:21And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;

Jos 19:22

Jos 19:22And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

Jos 19:23

Jos 19:23This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Territory of Asher

Jos 19:24

Jos 19:24And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.

Jos 19:25

Jos 19:25And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph

Jos 19:26

Jos 19:26And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;

Jos 19:27

Jos 19:27Turning 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

Jos 19:28

Jos 19:28And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon;

Jos 19:29

Jos 19:29And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;

Jos 19:30

Jos 19:30And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.

Jos 19:31

Jos 19:31This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Territory of Naphtali

Jos 19:32

Jos 19:32For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families;

Jos 19:33

Jos 19:33And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan;

Jos 19:34

Jos 19:34And 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.

Jos 19:35

Jos 19:35And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth

Jos 19:36

Jos 19:36And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor

Jos 19:37

Jos 19:37And Kedesh and Edrei and En-Hazor

Jos 19:38

Jos 19:38And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.

Jos 19:39

Jos 19:39This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Territory of Dan

Jos 19:40

Jos 19:40For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;

Jos 19:41

Jos 19:41And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

Jos 19:42

Jos 19:42And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah

Jos 19:43

Jos 19:43And Elon and Timnah and Ekron

Jos 19:44

Jos 19:44And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

Jos 19:45

Jos 19:45And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;

Jos 19:46

Jos 19:46And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.

Jos 19:47

Jos 19:47(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.)

Jos 19:48

Jos 19:48This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Jos 19:49

Jos 19:49So 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;

Jos 19:50

Jos 19:50By 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.

Jos 19:51

Jos 19:51These 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.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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