Jos 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the
land was subdued before them.
Jos 18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had
not yet received their inheritance.
Jos 18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to
go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?
Jos 18:4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them,
and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the
inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Jos 18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their
coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the
north.
Jos 18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the
description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our
God.
Jos 18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord
is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have
received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of
the Lord gave them.
Jos 18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and
come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh.
Jos 18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by
cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at
Shiloh.
Jos 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord: and there
Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
Jos 18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according
to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of
Judah and the children of Joseph.
Jos 18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border
went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the
mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of
Bethaven.
Jos 18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz,
which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the
hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
Jos 18:14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea
southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings
out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children
of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Jos 18:15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the
border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
Jos 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before
the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the
north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the
south, and descended to Enrogel,
Jos 18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went
forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and
descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
Jos 18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and
went down unto Arabah:
Jos 18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and
the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south
end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
Jos 18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about,
according to their families.
Jos 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to
their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz.
Jos 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Jos 18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Jos 18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
villages:
Jos 18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Jos 18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
Jos 18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
Jos 18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and
Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their families.