Joshua 14:5–16:10

5 fAs the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the gKenezite said unto him, Thou knowest hthe thing that the Lord said unto Moses ithe man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord jsent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. 8 Nevertheless kmy brethren that went up with me kmade the heart of the people melt: but I wholly lfollowed the Lord my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, mSurely the land nwhereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast lwholly followed the Lord my God. 10 *And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, oas he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel †wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day pfourscore and five years old. 11 qAs yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both rto go out, and to come in. 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how sthe Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. 13 And Joshua tblessed him, and ugave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he xwholly followed the Lord God of Israel. 15 And ythe name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. zAnd the land had rest from war.

15 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; aeven to the border of Edom the bwilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of cthe south coast. 2 And their south border was afrom the shore of the salt sea, from the †bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to ||Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 4 From thence it passed dtoward Azmon, and went out dunto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. 5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan: 6 And the border went up to eBeth-hogla, and passed along by the north of fBeth-arabah; and the border went up gto the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: 7 And the border went up toward hDebir from ithe valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is gbefore the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of gEn-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at jEn-rogel: 8 And the border went up kby the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the lJebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before mthe valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of mthe valley of the giants northward: 9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto nthe fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to oBaalah, which is pKirjath-jearim: 10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to qBethshemesh, and passed on to rTimnah: 11 And the border went out unto the side of sEkron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount tBaalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. 12 And the west border was uto the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

13 wAnd unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even ||the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, xSheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of yDebir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher. 16 zAnd Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 17 And Othniel the ason of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and bshe lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? 19 Who answered, Give me a cblessing; for thou hast given me a south land; dgive me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were eKabzeel, and fEder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 23 And gKedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 hZiph, and iTelem, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and jklMoladah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and lBeth-palet, 28 And jkHazar-shual, and jmBeer-sheba, and Bizjothjah, 29 jBaalah, and Iim, and jnAzem, 30 And jnEltolad, and Chesil, and joHormah, 31 And jpZiklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, 32 And jLebaoth, and Shilhim, and jqAin, and jrRimmon: all the cities are jtwenty and nine, with their villages:

33 And in the valley, sEshtaol, and sZoreah, and Ashnah, 34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, tTappuah, and Enam, 35 uJarmuth, and wAdullam, xSocoh, and yAzekah, 36 And zSharaim, and Adithaim, and aGederah, ||and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: 37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and bMigdal-gad, 38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and cJoktheel, 39 dLachish, and eBozkath, and dEglon, 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, 41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and fMakkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: 42 gLibnah, and hEther, and hAshan, 43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, 44 And iKeilah, and jAchzib, and kMareshah; nine cities with their villages: 45 lEkron, with her mtowns and her villages: 46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay †near nAshdod, with their villages: 47 Ashdod with her mtowns and her villages, oGaza with her mtowns and her villages, unto pthe river of Egypt, and qthe great sea, and the border thereof:

48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and rJattir, and sSocoh, 49 And Dannah, and tKirjath-sannah, which is Debir, 50 And Anab, and uEshtemoh, and Anim, 51 And wGoshen, and xHolon, and yGiloh; eleven cities with their villages: 52 Arab, and zDumah, and Eshean, 53 And ||Janum, and aBeth-tappuah, and Aphekah, 54 And Humtah, and bKirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages: 55 cMaon, dCarmel, and eZiph, and fJuttah, 56 And gJezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, 57 Cain, Gibeah, and hTimnah; ten cities with their villages: 58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and iGedor, 59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: 60 jKirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

61 In the wilderness, kBeth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, 62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and lEn-gedi; six cities with their villages. 63 mAs for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

16 And the lot of the children of Joseph †fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to athe wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el, 2 And goeth out from Beth-el to bLuz, and passeth along unto the borders of cArchi to Ataroth, 3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of dBeth-horon the nether, and to eGezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea. 4 fSo the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was gAtaroth-addar, unto hBeth-horon the upper; 6 And the border went out toward the sea to iMichmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto kTaanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; 7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to lNaarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. 8 The border went out from mTappuah westward unto the nriver Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. 9 And othe separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. 10 pAnd they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and qserve under tribute.