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Joshua 15 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Judah’s Inheritance

Jos 15:1

Now the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families [fn]reached the border of Edom, southward to the wilderness of Zin at the far end toward the south.

Jos 15:2And their south border was from the lower end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that turns to the south.
Jos 15:3Then it went out southward to the ascent of Akrabbim and passed on to Zin and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea and continued to Hezron and went up to Addar and turned about to Karka.
Jos 15:4And it passed on to Azmon and went out to the [fn]brook of Egypt, and the [fn]border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
Jos 15:5And the east border was the Salt Sea, as far as the [fn]mouth of the Jordan. And the border of the north side was from the bay of the sea at the [fn]mouth of the Jordan.
Jos 15:6Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah and passed by on the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
Jos 15:7Then the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor and turned northward toward Gilgal which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south of the valley; and the border continued to the waters of En-shemesh and [fn]it ended at En-rogel.
Jos 15:8Then the border went up the valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain which is before the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim toward the north.
Jos 15:9From the top of the mountain the border curved to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron; then the border curved to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
Jos 15:10Then the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir and continued to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is, Chesalon) and went down to Beth-shemesh and continued through Timnah.
Jos 15:11Then the border went out to the side of Ekron northward. Then the border curved to Shikkeron and passed on to Mount Baalah and went out to Jabneel, and the [fn]border ended at the sea.
Jos 15:12And the west border was at the Great Sea, even its [fn]coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.
Jos 15:13

Now he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh to Joshua, namely, [fn]Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron).

Jos 15:14And Caleb dispossessed from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Jos 15:15Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.
Jos 15:16And Caleb said, “The one who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, [fn]I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.”
Jos 15:17And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.
Jos 15:18Now it happened that when she came to him, she enticed him to ask her father for a field. So she alighted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
Jos 15:19Then she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the [fn]Negev, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Jos 15:20

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

Jos 15:21

Now the cities at the far end of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur,

Jos 15:22and Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah,
Jos 15:23and Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan,
Jos 15:24Ziph and Telem and Bealoth,
Jos 15:25and Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
Jos 15:26Amam and Shema and Moladah,
Jos 15:27and Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and Beth-pelet,
Jos 15:28and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and Biziothiah,
Jos 15:29Baalah and Iim and Ezem,
Jos 15:30and Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah,
Jos 15:31and Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah,
Jos 15:32and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
Jos 15:33

In the [fn]Shephelah: Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah,

Jos 15:34and Zanoah and En-gannim, Tappuah and Enam,
Jos 15:35Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah,
Jos 15:36and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
Jos 15:37

Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad,

Jos 15:38and Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel,
Jos 15:39Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,
Jos 15:40and Cabbon and Lahmas and Chitlish,
Jos 15:41and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
Jos 15:42

Libnah and Ether and Ashan,

Jos 15:43and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib,
Jos 15:44and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
Jos 15:45

Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

Jos 15:46from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the [fn]side of Ashdod, with their villages.
Jos 15:47

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; as far as the [fn]brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its [fn]coastline.

Jos 15:48

And in the hill country: Shamir and Jattir and Socoh,

Jos 15:49and Dannah and Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),
Jos 15:50and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim,
Jos 15:51and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
Jos 15:52

Arab and Dumah and Eshan,

Jos 15:53and Janum and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah,
Jos 15:54and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
Jos 15:55

Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah,

Jos 15:56and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,
Jos 15:57Kain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Jos 15:58

Halhul, Beth-zur and Gedor,

Jos 15:59and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
Jos 15:60

Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Jos 15:61

In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin and Secacah,

Jos 15:62and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Jos 15:63

Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.

LSB Footnotes
Lit was to
Or wadi
Lit goings out of the border were
Lit end
Lit end
Lit the goings out of it were
Lit goings out of the border were
Lit border
Lit mouth
Lit the city of Arba
Lit and I
South country
Or lowland
Lit hand
Or wadi
Lit border
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