Jos 15-17

CHAPTER 15

THIS then was the lot of the tribe ofthe children of Judahby their families; even to the borderof Edomthe wilderness of Zin southward was theuttermost part of the south coast.
2 And their south border was from the shore ofthe salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
3 And it went out to the south side toMaaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south sideunto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, andfetched a compass to Karkaa:
4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, andwent out unto the river of Egypt; and the goingsout of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at theuttermost part of Jordan:
6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla, andpassed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stoneof Bohan the son of Reuben:
7 And the border went up toward Debir from thevalley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river:and the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings outthereof were at En-rogel:
8 And the border went up by the valley of theson of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up tothe top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
9 And the border was drawn from the top of thehill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron;and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:
10 And the border compassed from Baalahwestward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, andwent down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
11 And the border went out unto the side ofEkron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah,and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is thecoast of the children of Judah round aboutaccording to their families.
13 ¶ And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh hegave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
14 And Calebdrove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, thechildren of Anak.
15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants ofDebir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.
16 ¶ And Calebsaid, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsahmy daughter to wife.
17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother ofCaleb, took it: and he gave him Achsahhis daughter to wife.
18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him,that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Calebsaid unto her, What wouldest thou?
19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thouhast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her theupper springs, and the nether springs.
20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judahaccording to their families.
21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of thechildren of Judahtoward the coast of Edomsouthward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, andBeth-palet,
28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, andBizjothjah,
29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, andRimmon: all the cities are twenty andnine, with their villages:
33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, andEnam,
35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, andGederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
39 Lachish,and Bozkath, and Eglon,
40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, andMakkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; ninecities with their villages:
45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
47 Ashdod withher towns and her villages, Gaza with her townsand her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the greatsea, and the border thereof:
48 ¶ And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir,and Socoh,
49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which is Debir,
50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
51 And Goshen,and Holon, andGiloh; eleven cities with their villages:
52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
53 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
54 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron,and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
55 Maon, Carmel,and Ziph, and Juttah,
56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
57 Cain, Gibeah, andTimnah; ten cities with their villages:
58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon;six cities with their villages:
60 Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, andSecacah,
62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; sixcities with their villages.
63 ¶ As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: butthe Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

CHAPTER 16

AND the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho,unto the water of Jericho on the east, to thewilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughoutmount Beth-el,
2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi toAtaroth,
3 And goeth down westward to the coast ofJaphleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at thesea.
4 So the children of Joseph,Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
5 ¶ And the border of the children of Ephraimaccording to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, untoBeth-horon the upper;
6 And the border went out toward the sea toMichmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh,and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, andto Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out atJordan.
8 The border went out from Tappuah westwardunto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of thechildren of Ephraim by their families.
9 And the separate cities for the children ofEphraim were among the inheritance ofthe children of Manasseh, all the cities with theirvillages.
10 And they drave not out the Canaanites thatdwelt in Gezer:but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve undertribute.

CHAPTER 17

THERE was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit,for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father ofGilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
2 There was also a lot for the rest of thechildren of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and forthe children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children ofShechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manassehthe son of Joseph by their families.
3 ¶ But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the sonof Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah,and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest,and before Joshua the son of Nun, andbefore the princes, saying, The Lordcommanded Moses to give us aninheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance amongthe brethren of their father.
5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh,beside the land of Gilead and Bashan,which were on the other side Jordan;
6 Because the daughters of Manassehhad an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’ssons had the land of Gilead.
7 ¶ And the coast of Manassehwas from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the borderwent along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah:but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah,southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: thecoast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were atthe sea:
10 Southward it was Ephraim’s, andnorthward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together inAsher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in AsherBeth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dorand her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitantsof Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
12 Yet the children of Manassehcould not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel werewaxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterlydrive them out.
14 And the children of Joseph spake untoJoshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?
15 And Joshuaanswered them, If thou be a greatpeople, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself therein the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraimbe too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Josephsaid, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in theland of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17 And Joshuaspake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh,saying, Thou art a great people, andhast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down:and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out theCanaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.

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