“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.” (Joshua 18:1-28 AV)
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