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 9:1  And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on
this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all
the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite,
and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, heard [thereof];
 9:2  That they gathered themselves together, to fight with
Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
 9:3  And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had
done unto Jericho and to Ai,
 9:4  They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had
been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine
bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
 9:5  And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old
garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was
dry [and] mouldy.
 9:6  And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said
unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far
country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
 9:7  And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure
ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
 9:8  And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And
Joshua said unto them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?
 9:9  And they said unto him, From a very far country thy
servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for
we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
 9:10  And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites,
that [were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og
king of Bashan, which [was] at Ashtaroth.
 9:11  Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our
country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the
journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We [are] your
servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
 9:12  This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of
our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now,
behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
 9:13  And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new;
and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes
are become old by reason of the very long journey.
 9:14  And the men took of their victuals, and asked not
[counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
 9:15  And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with
them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation
sware unto them.
 9:16  And it came to pass at the end of three days after they
had made a league with them, that they heard that they [were]
their neighbours, and [that] they dwelt among them.
 9:17  And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto
their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon,
and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
 9:18  And the children of Israel smote them not, because the
princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God
of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the
princes.
 9:19  But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We
have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore
we may not touch them.
 9:20  This we will do to them; we will even let them live,
lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto
them.
 9:21  And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let
them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the
congregation; as the princes had promised them.
 9:22  And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them,
saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very
far from you; when ye dwell among us?
 9:23  Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of
you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers
of water for the house of my God.
 9:24  And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was
certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God
commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to
destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you,
therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and
have done this thing.
 9:25  And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth
good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
 9:26  And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the
hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
 9:27  And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers
of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD,
even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
 10:1  Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem
had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed
it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to
Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made
peace with Israel, and were among them;
 10:2  That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great
city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater
than Ai, and all the men thereof [were] mighty.
 10:3  Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham
king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia
king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
 10:4  Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon:
for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of
Israel.
 10:5  Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and
went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon,
and made war against it.
 10:6  And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to
Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up
to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of
the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together
against us.
 10:7  So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people
of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
 10:8  And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them
stand before thee.
 10:9  Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up
from Gilgal all night.
 10:10  And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew
them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along
the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah,
and unto Makkedah.
 10:11  And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,
[and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast
down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they
died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they]
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
 10:12  Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he
said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon;
and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
 10:13  And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this
written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
 10:14  And there was no day like that before it or after it,
that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD
fought for Israel.
 10:15  And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
 10:16  But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave
at Makkedah.
 10:17  And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are
found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
 10:18  And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of
the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
 10:19  And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and
smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their
cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your
hand.
 10:20  And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of
Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great
slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest [which]
remained of them entered into fenced cities.
 10:21  And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the
children of Israel.
 10:22  Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
 10:23  And they did so, and brought forth those five kings
unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of
Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the
king of Eglon.
 10:24  And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings
unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and
said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him,
Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And
they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
 10:25  And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed,
be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to
all your enemies against whom ye fight.
 10:26  And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and
hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees
until the evening.
 10:27  And it came to pass at the time of the going down of
the sun, [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down off
the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been
hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, [which remain]
until this very day.
 10:28  And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with
the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly
destroyed, them, and all the souls that [were] therein; he let
none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto
the king of Jericho.
 10:29  Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with
him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
 10:30  And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof,
into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the
sword, and all the souls that [were] therein; he let none
remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the
king of Jericho.
 10:31  And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him,
unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
 10:32  And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,
which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of
the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein, according to
all that he had done to Libnah.
 10:33  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and
Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none
remaining.
 10:34  And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all
Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought
against it:
 10:35  And they took it on that day, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein he
utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done
to Lachish.
 10:36  And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him,
unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
 10:37  And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and
all the souls that [were] therein; he left none remaining,
according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it
utterly, and all the souls that [were] therein.
 10:38  And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir;
and fought against it:
 10:39  And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the
cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] therein; he
left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to
Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah,
and to her king.
 10:40  So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of
the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their
kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that
breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
 10:41  And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza,
and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
 10:42  And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at
one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
 10:43  And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
 11:1  And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard
[those things], that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the
king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
 11:2  And to the kings that [were] on the north of the
mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the
valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
 11:3  [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and
[to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the
Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in
the land of Mizpeh.
 11:4  And they went out, they and all their hosts with them,
much people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in
multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
 11:5  And when all these kings were met together, they came
and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against
Israel.
 11:6  And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of
them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all
slain before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn
their chariots with fire.
 11:7  So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell
upon them.
 11:8  And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who
smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto
Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and
they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
 11:9  And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he hocked
their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
 11:10  And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor,
and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime
was the head of all those kingdoms.
 11:11  And they smote all the souls that [were] therein with
the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not
any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
 11:12  And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of
them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the
sword, [and] he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded.
 11:13  But [as for] the cities that stood still in their
strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that]
did Joshua burn.
 11:14  And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every
man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
 11:15  As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of
all that the LORD commanded Moses.
 11:16  So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the
south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and
the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the
same;
 11:17  [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir,
even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon:
and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
 11:18  Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
 11:19  There was not a city that made peace with the children
of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all
[other] they took in battle.
 11:20  For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that
they should come against Israel in battle, that he might
destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but
that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
 11:21  And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims
from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and
from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of
Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
 11:22  There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there
remained.
 11:23  So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance
unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And
the land rested from war.
 12:1  Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the
children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other
side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon
unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
 12:2  Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and]
ruled from Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon,
and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even
unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of
Ammon;
 12:3  And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east,
and unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east,
the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under
Ashdothpisgah:
 12:4  And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the
remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
 12:5  And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all
Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites,
and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
 12:6  Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children
of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it
[for] a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasseh.
 12:7  And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua
and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the
west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount
Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes
of Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;
 12:8  In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains,
and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south
country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
 12:9  The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is]
beside Bethel, one;
 12:10  The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
 12:11  The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
 12:12  The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
 12:13  The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
 12:14  The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
 12:15  The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
 12:16  The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
 12:17  The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
 12:18  The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
 12:19  The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
 12:20  The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph,
one;
 12:21  The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
 12:22  The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel,
one;
 12:23  The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of
the nations of Gilgal, one;
 12:24  The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
 13:1  Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in years; and the LORD
said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there
remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
 13:2  This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders
of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
 13:3  From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the
borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the
Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and
the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the
Ekronites; also the Avites:
 13:4  From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the
borders of the Amorites:
 13:5  And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the
entering into Hamath.
 13:6  All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon
unto Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive
out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by
lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded
thee.
 13:7  Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto
the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
 13:8  With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan
eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
 13:9  From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon,
and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the
plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
 13:10  And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which
reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
 13:11  And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
 13:12  All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the
giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
 13:13  Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the
Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the
Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
 13:14  Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance;
the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are]
their inheritance, as he said unto them.
 13:15  And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
[inheritance] according to their families.
 13:16  And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank
of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the
river, and all the plain by Medeba;
 13:17  Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain;
Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
 13:18  And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
 13:19  And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the
mount of the valley,
 13:20  And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
 13:21  And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom
Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and
Zur, and Hur, and Reba, [which were] dukes of Sihon, dwelling
in the country.
 13:22  Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were
slain by them.
 13:23  And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan,
and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the
children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.
 13:24  And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad,
[even] unto the children of Gad according to their families.
 13:25  And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of
Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer
that [is] before Rabbah;
 13:26  And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and
from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
 13:27  And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and
Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the
sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
 13:28  This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after
their families, the cities, and their villages.
 13:29  And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of
Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of
the children of Manasseh by their families.
 13:30  And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which
[are] in Bashan, threescore cities:
 13:31  And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the
children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half
of the children of Machir by their families.
 13:32  These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute
for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side
Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
 13:33  But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any]
inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as
he said unto them.
 14:1  And these [are the countries] which the children of
Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers
of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for
inheritance to them.
 14:2  By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by
the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half
tribe.
 14:3  For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an
half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he
gave none inheritance among them.
 14:4  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the
land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their
cattle and for their substance.
 14:5  As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
did, and they divided the land.
 14:6  Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou
knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
 14:7  Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I
brought him word again as [it was] in mine heart.
 14:8  Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the
heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my
God.
 14:9  And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land
whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and
thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the
LORD my God.
 14:10  And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he
said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake
this word unto Moses, while [the children of] Israel wandered
in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day fourscore and
five years old.
 14:11  As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day
that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my
strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
 14:12  Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD
spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the
Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and]
fenced: if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be
able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
 14:13  And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
 14:14  Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the
son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he
wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
 14:15  And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which
Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest
from war.
 15:1  [This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of
Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom the
wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the
south coast.
 15:2  And their south border was from the shore of the salt
sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
 15:3  And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and
passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto
Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
 15:4  [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto
the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at
the sea: this shall be your south coast.
 15:5  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 the uttermost part of Jordan:
 15:6  And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by
the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of
Bohan the son of Reuben:
 15:7  And the border went up toward Debir from the valley 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
Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
 15:8  And the border went up by the valley of the son of
Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same [is]
Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain
that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is]
at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
 15:9  And the border was drawn from the top of the hill 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] Kirjathjearim:
 15:10  And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto
mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim,
which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to
Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
 15:11  And the border went out unto the side of Ekron
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.
 15:12  And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the
coast [thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Judah
round about according to their families.
 15:13  And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave 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.
 15:14  And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
 15:15  And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and
the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.
 15:16  And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
 15:17  And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb,
took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
 15:18  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 Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
 15:19  Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given
me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her
the upper springs, and the nether springs.
 15:20  This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Judah according to their families.
 15:21  And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children
of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and
Eder, and Jagur,
 15:22  And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
 15:23  And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
 15:24  Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
 15:25  And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which
[is] Hazor,
 15:26  Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
 15:27  And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
 15:28  And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
 15:29  Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
 15:30  And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
 15:31  And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
 15:32  And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:
 15:33  [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
 15:34  And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
 15:35  Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
 15:36  And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
 15:37  Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
 15:38  And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
 15:39  Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
 15:40  And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
 15:41  And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages:
 15:42  Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
 15:43  And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
 15:44  And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages:
 15:45  Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
 15:46  From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near
Ashdod, with their villages:
 15:47  Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her
towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great
sea, and the border [thereof]:
 15:48  And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
 15:49  And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,
 15:50  And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
 15:51  And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with
their villages:
 15:52  Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
 15:53  And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
 15:54  And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, and
Zior; nine cities with their villages:
 15:55  Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
 15:56  And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
 15:57  Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their
villages:
 15:58  Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
 15:59  And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities
with their villages:
 15:60  Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages:
 15:61  In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
 15:62  And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six
cities with their villages.
 15:63  As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites
dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
 16:1  And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan
by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the
wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel.
 16:2  And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto
the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
 16:3  And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto
the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings
out thereof are at the sea.
 16:4  So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took
their inheritance.
 16:5  And the border of the children of Ephraim according to
their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance
on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
 16:6  And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on
the north side; and the border went about eastward unto
Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
 16:7  And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to
Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
 16:8  The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river
Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This [is]
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by
their families.
 16:9  And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim
[were] among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all
the cities with their villages.
 16:10  And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this
day, and serve under tribute.