Joshua 14–19

14And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, ^awhich Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. ^2bBy lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. ^3cFor Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. ⁴For ^dthe children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their ^ecattle and for their substance. ^5fAs the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

⁶Then 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. ⁷Forty 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. ⁸Nevertheless ^kmy brethren that went up with me ^kmade the heart of the people melt: but I wholly ^lfollowed the Lord my God. ⁹And 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. ^11qAs 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. ¹²Now 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. ¹³And Joshua ^tblessed him, and ^ugave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. ¹⁴Hebron 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. ¹⁵And ^ythe name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. ^zAnd the land had rest from war.

15This 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. ²And their south border was ^afrom the shore of the salt sea, from the ^†bay that looketh southward: ³And 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: ⁴From 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. ⁵And 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: ⁶And 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: ⁷And 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: ⁸And 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: ⁹And 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: ¹⁰And 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: ¹¹And 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. ¹²And 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.

^13wAnd 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. ¹⁴And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, ^xSheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. ¹⁵And he went up thence to the inhabitants of ^yDebir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher. ^16zAnd Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. ¹⁷And Othniel the ^ason of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. ¹⁸And 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? ¹⁹Who 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.

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

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

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

⁶¹In the wilderness, ^kBeth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, ⁶²And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and ^lEn-gedi; six cities with their villages. ^63mAs 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.

16And 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, ²And goeth out from Beth-el to ^bLuz, and passeth along unto the borders of ^cArchi to Ataroth, ³And 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. ^4fSo the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

⁵And 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; ⁶And 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; ⁷And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to ^lNaarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. ⁸The 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. ⁹And ^othe separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of…