Joshua 14–19

Chapter 14

¹And this is what the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, allotted for inheritance to them: ²their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah had commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and the half tribe. ³For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among them. ⁴For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. ⁵As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

⁶Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, Thou knowest the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God, concerning me and thee, in Kadesh-barnea. ⁷Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to search out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸And my brethren that had gone up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God. ⁹And Moses swore on that day, saying, The land whereon thy feet have trodden shall assuredly be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever! for thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my God. ¹⁰And now behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. ¹¹I am still this day strong, as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in. ¹²And now give me this mountain, of which Jehovah spoke in that day; for thou heardest in that day that Anakim are there, and great fortified cities. If so be Jehovah shall be with me, then I shall dispossess them, as Jehovah said. ¹³And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed Jehovah the God of Israel. ¹⁵Now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-Arba; the great man among the Anakim. And the land rested from war.

Chapter 15

¹And the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin, southward, in the extreme south. ²And their southern border was from the end of the salt sea, from the tongue that turns southward; ³and it went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed to Hezron, and went up toward Addar, and turned toward Karkaah, ⁴and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. That shall be your border southward. ⁵—And the eastern border was the salt sea as far as the end of the Jordan. —And the border on the north side was from the tongue of the salt sea, at the end of the Jordan; ⁶and the border went up toward Beth-hoglah, and passed north of Beth-Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben; ⁷and the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and turned northward to Gilgal, which is opposite to the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the torrent; and the border passed to the waters of En-shemesh, and ended at En-rogel; ⁸and the border went up to the valley of the son of Hinnom, toward the south side of the Jebusite, that is, Jerusalem; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim northward; ⁹and the border reached along from the top of the mountain toward the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out toward the cities of mount Ephron; and the border reached along to Baalah, that is, Kirjath-jearim; ¹⁰and the border turned from Baalah westwards toward mount Seir, and passed toward the side of Har-jearim, that is, Chesalon, northwards, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed Timnah. ¹¹And the border went out to the side of Ekron northwards, and the border reached along toward Shicron, and passed mount Baalah, and went toward Jabneel; and the border ended at the sea. ¹²—And the west border is the great sea and its coast. This is the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.

¹³And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah according to the commandment of Jehovah to Joshua, the city of Arba, the father of Anak, that is, Hebron. ¹⁴And thence Caleb dispossessed the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, who were born of Anak. ¹⁵And from there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher. ¹⁶And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. ¹⁷And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. ¹⁸And it came to pass as she came, that she urged him to ask of her father a field; and she sprang down from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What wouldest thou? ¹⁹And she said, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; give me also springs of water. Then he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

²⁰This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. ²¹The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, ²²and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, ²³and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Jithnan, ²⁴Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, ²⁵and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-Hezron, that is Hazor, ²⁶Amam, and Shema, and Molada, ²⁷and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-Pelet, ²⁸and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah; ²⁹Baalah, and Ijim, and Ezem, ³⁰and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, ³¹and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansanna, ³²and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their hamlets. ³³—In the lowland: Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah, ³⁴and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah and Enam, ³⁵Jarmuth and Adullam, Sochoh and Azekah, ³⁶and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities and their hamlets. ³⁷Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-Gad, ³⁸and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, ³⁹Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, ⁴⁰and Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish, ⁴¹and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities and their hamlets. ⁴²Libna, and Ether, and Ashan, ⁴³and Jiphthah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, ⁴⁴and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities and their hamlets. ⁴⁵Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets. ⁴⁶From Ekron and westward all that are by the side of Ashdod, and their hamlets. ⁴⁷Ashdod, its dependent villages and its hamlets; Gazah, its dependent villages and its hamlets, as far as the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea and its coast. ⁴⁸—And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Sochoh, ⁴⁹and Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, that is, Debir, ⁵⁰and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, ⁵¹and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities and their hamlets. ⁵²Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan, ⁵³and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah, ⁵⁴and Humtah, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, and Zior: nine cities and their hamlets. ⁵⁵Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah, ⁵⁶and Jizreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, ⁵⁷Kain, Gibeah and Timnah: ten cities and their hamlets. ⁵⁸Halhul, Beth-Zur, and Gedor, ⁵⁹and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities and their hamlets. ⁶⁰Kirjath-Baal, that is, Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah: two cities and their hamlets. ⁶¹—In the wilderness: Beth-Arabah, Middin, and Secacah, ⁶²and Nibshan, and Ir-Hammelah, and En-gedi: six cities and their hamlets. ⁶³But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not dispossess them; and the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Chapter 16

¹And the lot came forth for the children of Joseph from the Jordan of Jericho as far as the waters of Jericho eastwards, to the wilderness which goes up from Jericho to the hill-country of Bethel. ²And the border went from Bethel to Luz, and passed to the border of the Archites to Ataroth, ³and went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, as far as the border of the lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer; and ended at the sea. ⁴And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

⁵And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their families; the border of their inheritance eastwards was Ataroth-Addar as far as the upper Beth-horon; ⁶and the border went forth westwards to Micmethath on the north; and the border turned eastwards to Taanath-Shiloh, and passed by it eastwards to Janohah, ⁷and went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarath, and touched upon Jericho, and went out to the Jordan. ⁸From Tappuah the border went westwards to the torrent Kanah, and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families, ⁹with the cities that were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities and their hamlets. ¹⁰But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.

Chapter 17

¹And the lot came to the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the firstborn of Joseph), to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war, and he had Gilead and Bashan. ²There was also a portion for the rest…