18Joshua 18

1And 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.Select Joshua 18:1

2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.Select Joshua 18:2

3And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?Select Joshua 18:3

4Give 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.Select Joshua 18:4

5And 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.Select Joshua 18:5

6You shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.Select Joshua 18:6

7But 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. ¶Select Joshua 18:7

8And 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.Select Joshua 18:8

9And 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. ¶Select Joshua 18:9

10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. ¶Select Joshua 18:10

11And 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.Select Joshua 18:11

12And 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.Select Joshua 18:12

13And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.Select Joshua 18:13

14And the border was drawn there, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies 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.Select Joshua 18:14

15And 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:Select Joshua 18:15

16And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies 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,Select Joshua 18:16

17And 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,Select Joshua 18:17

18And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down to Arabah:Select Joshua 18:18

19And 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.Select Joshua 18:19

20And 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.Select Joshua 18:20

21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,Select Joshua 18:21

22And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,Select Joshua 18:22

23And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,Select Joshua 18:23

24And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:Select Joshua 18:24

25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,Select Joshua 18:25

26And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,Select Joshua 18:26

27And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,Select Joshua 18:27

28And 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.Select Joshua 18:28