Joshua 15–17

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 Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ^10pAnd they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and ^qserve under tribute.

17There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the ^afirstborn of Joseph; to wit, for ^bMachir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had ^cGilead and Bashan. ²There was also a lot for ^dthe rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of ^e||Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of ^dHepher, and for the children of ^dShemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. ³But ^fZelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ⁴And they came near before ^gEleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, ^hThe Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. ⁵And there fell ⁱten portions to Manasseh, ^jbeside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan; ⁶Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

⁷And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to ^kMichmethah, that lieth before ^lShechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of ^mEn-tappuah. ⁸Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but ^mTappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; ⁹And the coast descended unto the ^||river Kanah, southward of the river: ⁿthese cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea: ¹⁰Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east. ^11oAnd Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher ^pBeth-shean and her towns, and ^qIbleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of ^rDor and her towns, and the inhabitants of ^sEndor and her towns, and the inhabitants of ^tTaanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of ^tMegiddo and her towns, even three countries. ¹²Yet ^uthe children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites…