Joshua 18 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Rest of the Land Divided

Jos 18:1And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there: and the land was subdued before them.

Jos 18:2

Jos 18:2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

Jos 18:3

Jos 18:3And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

Jos 18:4

Jos 18:4Select from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shall come again to me.

Jos 18:5

Jos 18:5And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their borders on the north.

Jos 18:6

Jos 18:6Ye shall therefore describe the land in seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

Jos 18:7

Jos 18:7But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

Jos 18:8

Jos 18:8And the men arose, and departed: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go, and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

Jos 18:9

Jos 18:9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven parts in a book, and came again, to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

Jos 18:10

Jos 18:10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

The Territory of Benjamin

Jos 18:11

Jos 18:11And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

Jos 18:12

Jos 18:12And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the limits of it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

Jos 18:13

Jos 18:13And the border went over from thence towards Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el) southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.

Jos 18:14

Jos 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the limits of it were at Kirjath-baal (which is Kirjath-jearim) a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.

Jos 18:15

Jos 18:15And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjah-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:

Jos 18:16

Jos 18:16And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,

Jos 18:17

Jos 18:17And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth towards Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

Jos 18:18

Jos 18:18And passed along towards the side over against Arabah northward, and went down to Arabah:

Jos 18:19

Jos 18:19And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the limits of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan. This was the south border.

Jos 18:20

Jos 18:20And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the limits of it round about, according to their families.

Jos 18:21

Jos 18:21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

Jos 18:22

Jos 18:22And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,

Jos 18:23

Jos 18:23And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

Jos 18:24

Jos 18:24And Chephar-haamonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:

Jos 18:25

Jos 18:25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

Jos 18:26

Jos 18:26And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

Jos 18:27

Jos 18:27And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

Jos 18:28

Jos 18:28And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, (which is Jerusalem) Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

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Rest of the Land Divided

The Territory of Benjamin

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