| 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.
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| 18:2 |
And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
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| 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?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| 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,
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| 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,
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| 18:18 |
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
northward, and went down unto Arabah:
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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,
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| 18:22 |
And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
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| 18:23 |
And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
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| 18:24 |
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve
cities with their villages:
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| 18:25 |
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
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| 18:26 |
And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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| 18:27 |
And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
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| 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.
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