Joshua Chapter 18

Joshua Chapter 18
1 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel came together at
Shiloh: for they set up the tabernacle of
the congregation there, after the land was
subject unto them.
2 Now there remained among the
children of Israel seven tribes, to whom
they had not divided their inheritance.
3 Therefore Joshua said unto the
children of Israel, How long are ye so
slack to enter and possess the land
which the Lord God of your fathers hath
given you?
4 Give from among you for every tribe
three men, that I may send them, and that
they may rise, and walk through the land,
and distribute it according to their
inheritance, and return to me.
5 And that they may divide it unto them
into seven parts, (Judah shall abide in
his coast at the south, and the house of
Joseph shall stand in their coasts at the
north)
6 Ye shall describe the land therefore
into seven parts, and shall bring them
hither to me, and I will cast lots for you
here before the Lord our God. 7 But the
Levites shall have no part among you:
for the priesthood of the Lord is their
inheritance: also Gad and Reuben and
half the tribe of Manasseh have received
their inheritance beyond Jordan
eastward, which Moses the servant of
the Lord gave them.
8 Then the men arose, and went their
way: and Joshua charged them that went
to describe the land, saying, Depart, and
go through the land, and describe it, and
return to me, that I may here cast lots for
you before the Lord in Shiloh.
9 So the men departed, and passed
through the land, and described it by
cities into seven parts in a book, and
returned to Joshua into the camp at
Shiloh.
10 Then Joshua cast lots for them in
Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua
divided the land unto the children of
Israel, according to their portions: 11
And the lot of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin came forth according to their
families, and the coast of their lot lay
between the children of Judah, and the
children of Joseph.
12 And their coast on the north side was
from Jordan, and the border went up to
the side of Jericho on the north part, and
went up through the mountains
westward, and the ends thereof are in the
wilderness of Beth-aven: 13 And this
border goeth along from thence to Luz,
even to the south side of Luz (the same is
Beth-el) and this border descendeth to
Ataroth-adar, near the mount, that lieth
on the south side of Beth-horon the
nether. 14 So the border turneth, and
compasseth the corner of the sea
southward, from the mount that lieth
before Beth-horon southward: and the
ends thereof are at Kirjath-baal (which
is Kirjath-jearim) a city of the children
of Judah: this is the west quarter.
15 And the south quarter is from the end
of Kirjath-jearim, and this border goeth
out westward and cometh to the fountain
of waters of Nephtoah. 16 And this
border descendeth at the end of the
mountain, that lieth before the valley of
Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of the
giants northward, and descendeth into
the valley of Hinnom by the side of
Jebusi southward, and goeth down to
En-rogel,
17 And compasseth from the north, and
goeth forth to En-shemesh, and stretcheth
to Geliloth, which is toward the going up
unto Adummim, and goeth down to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
18 So it goeth along to the side over
against the plain northward, and goeth
down into the plain.
19 After, this border goeth along to the
side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the
ends thereof, that is, of the border, reach
to the point of the salt sea northward,
and to the end of Jordan southward: this
is the south coast. 20 Also Jordan is the
border of it on the east side: this is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin
by the coasts thereof round about
according to their families.
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin according to their
families are Jericho, and Beth-hoglah,
and the valley of Keziz, 22 And Betharabah,
and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24 And Chephar, Ammonai, and Ophni,
and Gaba: twelve cities with their
villages.
25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and
Mozah,
27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
28 And Zela, 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.