Joshua 14–19

Chapter 14

This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.

²Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded the hand of Moses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.

³For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond the Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their brethren:

⁴But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and flocks.

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

⁶Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.

⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to me seemed true,

⁸But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.

⁹And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath trodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children for ever, because thou hast followed the Lord my God.

¹⁰The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until this present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I am eighty-five years old,

¹¹As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to march.

¹²Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if so be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised me.

¹³And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.

¹⁴And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the God of Israel.

¹⁵The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.

Chapter 15

Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this: From the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the uttermost part of the south coast.

²Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the bay thereof, that looketh to the south.

³And it goeth out towards the ascent of the Scorpion, and passeth on to Sina: and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron, going up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.

⁴And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the torrent of Egypt: and the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this shall be the limit of the south coast.

⁵But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea even to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of the sea unto the same river Jordan.

⁶And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla, and passeth by the north into Beth-Araba: going up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.

⁷And reaching as far as the borders of Debara from the valley of Achor, and so northward looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to the ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the torrent, and the border passeth the waters that are called the fountain of the sun: and the goings out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.

⁸And it goeth up by the valley of the son of Ennom on the side of the Jebusite towards the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence ascending to the top of the mountain, which is over against Geennom to the west in the end of the valley of Raphaim, northward.

⁹And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it bendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city of the woods.

¹⁰And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.

¹¹And reacheth northward to a part of Accaron at the side: and bendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel, and is bounded westward with the great sea.

¹²These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in their kindreds.

¹³But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac, which is Hebron.

¹⁴And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.

¹⁵And going up from thence he came to the inhabitants of Dabir, which before was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of letters.

¹⁶And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it, I will give him Axa my daughter to wife.

¹⁷And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.

¹⁸And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?

¹⁹But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a southern and dry land, give me also a land that is watered. And Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground.

²⁰This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by their kindreds.

²¹And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Juda by the borders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,

²²And Cina and Dimona and Adada,

²³And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,

²⁴Ziph and Telem and Baloth,

²⁵New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is Asor.

²⁶Amam, Sama and Molada,

²⁷And Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,

²⁸And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,

²⁹And Baala and Jim and Esem,

³⁰And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,

³¹And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,

³²Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.

³³But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

³⁴And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,

³⁵And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,

³⁶And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen cities, and their villages.

³⁷Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,

³⁸Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,

³⁹Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,

⁴⁰Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,

⁴¹And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages.

⁴²Labana and Ether and Asan,

⁴³Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,

⁴⁴And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine cities, and their villages.

⁴⁵Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.

⁴⁶From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus and the villages thereof.

⁴⁷Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border thereof.

⁴⁸And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,

⁴⁹And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is Dabir:

⁵⁰Anab and Istemo and Anim,

⁵¹Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.

⁵²Arab and Ruma and Esaan,

⁵³And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,

⁵⁴Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities and their villages.

⁵⁵Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

⁵⁶Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,

⁵⁷Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages.

⁵⁸Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,

⁵⁹Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their villages.

⁶⁰Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and Arebba: two cities and their villages.

⁶¹In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha,

⁶²And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and their villages.

⁶³But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day.

Chapter 16

And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan over against Jericho and the waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness which goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:

²And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of Archi, to Ataroth,

³And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the borders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it are ended by the great sea:

⁴And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.

⁵And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their kindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto Beth-horon the upper.

⁶And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to the north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo: and passeth along on the east side to Janoe.

⁷And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it cometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.

⁸From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of reeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

⁹And there were cities with their villages separated for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of Manasses.

¹⁰And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

Chapter 17

And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the firstborn of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of Galaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan.

²And to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their families: to the children of Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and to the children of Esriel, and to the…