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 Beth-aven.
13:
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is
Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that
lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
14: And the border
was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill
that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at
Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was
the west quarter.
15: And the south quarter was from the end of
Kirjath-jearim, 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 En-rogel,
17: And was
drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, 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 Beth-hoglah 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 Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
22: And
Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
23: And Avim, and Parah, and
Ophrah,
24: And Chephar-haammonai, 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.