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