Joshua:14-17

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* 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 . * By lot was their inheritance , as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses , for the nine tribes , and for the half tribe . * 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 . * 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 . * As the LORD commanded Moses , so the children of Israel did , and they divided the land . * 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 . * 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 . * Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt : but I wholly followed the LORD my God . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And Joshua blessed him , and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance . * 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 . * And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba ; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims . And the land had rest from war . * 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 . * And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea , from the bay that looketh southward : * 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 : * 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 . * 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 : * 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 : * 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 : * 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 : * 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 : * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak , Sheshai , and Ahiman , and Talmai , the children of Anak . * And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir : and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher . * And Caleb said , He that smiteth Kirjathsepher , and taketh it , to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife . * And Othniel the son of Kenaz , the brother of Caleb , took it : and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife . * 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 ? * 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 . * This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families . * And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel , and Eder , and Jagur , * And Kinah , and Dimonah , and Adadah , * And Kedesh , and Hazor , and Ithnan , * Ziph , and Telem , and Bealoth , * And Hazor , Hadattah , and Kerioth , and Hezron , which is Hazor , * Amam , and Shema , and Moladah , * And Hazargaddah , and Heshmon , and Bethpalet , * And Hazarshual , and Beersheba , and Bizjothjah , * Baalah , and Iim , and Azem , * And Eltolad , and Chesil , and Hormah , * And Ziklag , and Madmannah , and Sansannah , * And Lebaoth , and Shilhim , and Ain , and Rimmon : all the cities are twenty and nine , with their villages : * And in the valley , Eshtaol , and Zoreah , and Ashnah , * And Zanoah , and Engannim , Tappuah , and Enam , * Jarmuth , and Adullam , Socoh , and Azekah , * And Sharaim , and Adithaim , and Gederah , and Gederothaim ; fourteen cities with their villages : * Zenan , and Hadashah , and Migdalgad , * And Dilean , and Mizpeh , and Joktheel , * Lachish , and Bozkath , and Eglon , * And Cabbon , and Lahmam , and Kithlish , * And Gederoth , Bethdagon , and Naamah , and Makkedah ; sixteen cities with their villages : * Libnah , and Ether , and Ashan , * And Jiphtah , and Ashnah , and Nezib , * And Keilah , and Achzib , and Mareshah ; nine cities with their villages : * Ekron , with her towns and her villages : * From Ekron even unto the sea , all that lay near Ashdod , with their villages : * 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 : * And in the mountains , Shamir , and Jattir , and Socoh , * And Dannah , and Kirjathsannah , which is Debir , * And Anab , and Eshtemoh , and Anim , * And Goshen , and Holon , and Giloh ; eleven cities with their villages : * Arab , and Dumah , and Eshean , * And Janum , and Bethtappuah , and Aphekah , * And Humtah , and Kirjatharba , which is Hebron , and Zior ; nine cities with their villages : * Maon , Carmel , and Ziph , and Juttah , * And Jezreel , and Jokdeam , and Zanoah , * Cain , Gibeah , and Timnah ; ten cities with their villages : * Halhul , Bethzur , and Gedor , * And Maarath , and Bethanoth , and Eltekon ; six cities with their villages : * Kirjathbaal , which is Kirjathjearim , and Rabbah ; two cities with their villages : * In the wilderness , Betharabah , Middin , and Secacah , * And Nibshan , and the city of Salt , and Engedi ; six cities with their villages . * 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 . * 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 , * And goeth out from Bethel to Luz , and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth , * 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 . * So the children of Joseph , Manasseh and Ephraim , took their inheritance . * 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 ; * 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 ; * And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth , and to Naarath , and came to Jericho , and went out at Jordan . * 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 . * And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh , all the cities with their villages . * 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 . * 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 of Gilead : because he was a man of war , therefore he had Gilead and Bashan . * There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families ; for the children of Abiezer , and for the children of Helek , and for the children of Asriel , and for the children of Shechem , and for the children of Hepher , and for the children of Shemida : these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families . * But Zelophehad , the son of Hepher , the son of 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 . * And they came near before Eleazar the priest , and before Joshua the son of Nun , and before the princes , saying , The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren . Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father . * And there fell ten portions to Manasseh , beside the land of Gilead and Bashan , which were on the other side Jordan ; * Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons : and the rest of Manasseh 's sons had the land of Gilead . * And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah , that lieth before Shechem ; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah . * Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah : but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim ; * And the coast descended unto the river Kanah , southward of the river : these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh : the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river , and the outgoings of it were at the sea : * Southward it was Ephraim 's , and northward it was Manasseh 's , and the sea is his border ; and they met together in Asher on the north , and in Issachar on the east . * And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns , and Ibleam and her towns , and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns , and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns , and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns , and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns , even three countries . * Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities ; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land . * Yet it came to pass , when the children of Israel were waxen strong , that they put the Canaanites to tribute ; but did not utterly drive them out . * And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua , 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 ? * And Joshua answered them , If thou be a great people , then get thee up to the wood country , and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants , if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee . * And the children of Joseph said , The hill is not enough for us : and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron , both they who are of Bethshean and her towns , and they who are of the valley of Jezreel . * And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph , even to Ephraim and to Manasseh , saying , Thou art a great people , and hast great power : thou shalt not have one lot only : * 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 the Canaanites , though they have iron chariots , and though they be strong . * 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 .

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