Joshua 18:11–28

Allotment for Benjamin

¹¹The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:

¹²On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan, passed the northern slope of Jericho and headed west into the hill country, coming out at the wilderness^k of Beth Aven.^{l 13}From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz^m (that is, Bethelⁿ) and went down to Ataroth Addar^o on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.

¹⁴From the hill facing Beth Horon^p on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim),^q a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.

¹⁵The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim on the west, and the boundary came out at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.^{r 16}The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim.^s It continued down the Hinnom Valley^t along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel.^{u 17}It then curved north, went to En Shemesh, continued to Geliloth,^v which faces the Pass of Adummim,^w and ran down to the Stone of Bohan^x son of Reuben. ¹⁸It continued to the northern slope of Beth Arabah^ay and on down into the Arabah.^{z 19}It then went to the northern slope of Beth Hoglah^a and came out at the northern bay of the Dead Sea,^b at the mouth of the Jordan in the south. This was the southern boundary.

²⁰The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side.

These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.^c

²¹The tribe of Benjamin, according to its clans, had the following towns:

Jericho, Beth Hoglah,^d Emek Keziz, ²²Beth Arabah,^e Zemaraim,^f Bethel,^{g 23}Avvim,^h Parah, Ophrah,^{i 24}Kephar Ammoni, Ophni and Geba^j—twelve towns and their villages.

²⁵Gibeon,^k Ramah,^l Beeroth,^{m 26}Mizpah,ⁿ Kephirah,^o Mozah, ²⁷Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, ²⁸Zelah,^p Haeleph, the Jebusite city^q (that is, Jerusalem^r), Gibeah^s and Kiriath—fourteen towns and their villages.^t

This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.^u