Chapter 15 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 Mealea Krabim, and passed along to Zin,
and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh Barnea, and passed along to Hezron,
and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Carchaea.
From thence it passed toward Asman, 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 Beth Hagla, and passed along by the north of Beth
Araba.
And the border went up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben.
And the border went up toward Debor, from the valley of Achor, and so
northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is, before the going up to Adamim,
which is on the south side of the river.
And the border passed toward the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out thereof
were at En Rogel.
And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom, unto the south side of
the Jebusite, the same as 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
Nephthoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron.
And the border was drawn to Baelah, which is Kirjath-jerim.
And the border compassed from Baelah, westward, unto Mount Seir, and passed
along unto the side of Mount Jerim, which is Kesselon, on the north side,
and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed on to Timnah.
And the border went out unto the side of Ekron, northward, and the border was drawn
to Shikron, and passed along to Mount Baelah, 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, Shishai, and Ahimon, and Talmai,
the children of Anak.
And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debar, and the name of Debar before was
Kirjath Sipher.
And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath Sipher, and taketh it, to him will I give
Aksa, my daughter, to wife.
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it, and he gave him Aksa,
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 wouldst thou?
Who answered, Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a southland.
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 Kabziel, and Eder, and Jager, and Kinnah, and Damona,
and Adadah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, Ziph, and Telim, and Bealoth,
and Hazor, Hadadah, and Kereoth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, Amam,
and Shema, and Moladah, and Hazorgadah, and Heshmon, and Beth-peleth, and
Hazershul, and Beersheba, and Bizjathcha, Baelah, and Ayim, and Azim, and Oltalad,
and Kisel, and Hormah, and Ziklag, and Madmana, and Sansana, and Libeoth,
and Shilhem, and Ain, and Rimmon.
All the cities are twenty and nine with their villages.
And in the valley, Eshtael, and Zoria, and Ashnah, and Zenoah, and Anganim,
Tapua, and Enam, Jarmath, and Adulam, Soko, and Azekah, and Shurayim,
and Adathayim, and Gedira, and Gedirathayim.
Fourteen cities with their villages.
Zenon, and Hadesha, and Migdal-gad, and Delion, and Mizpah, and Jokthio,
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, and Kaban, and Lamum, and Kithlish,
and Gedirath, Bethdagon, and Naama, and Makedah.
Sixteen cities with their villages.
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashen, and Jiphthah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
and Keilah, and Akzib, and Moreshah.
Nine cities with their villages.
Ekron, with her towns, and her villages.
From Ekron, even under the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their
villages.
Ashdod, with her towns, and her villages.
Geza, with her towns, and her villages, under the river of Egypt, and the great
sea, and the border thereof.
And in the mountains, Shemar, and Jator, and Soko, and Dana, and Kirjath-Sana,
which is deeper, and Anab, and Eshtemo, and Anim, and Goshen, and Holon,
and Gilo.
Eleven cities with their villages.
Ereb, and Duma, and Eshyon, and Jainam, and Bathtapua, and Afika, and Hamta,
and Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron, and Zior.
Nine cities with their villages.
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jata, and Jezreel, and Jocteim, and Zenoa,
Cain, Gibeah, and Timna.
Ten cities with their villages.
Halhul, Beth-Zur, and Gedor, and Meirath, and Beth-Aenath, and Eltikon.
Six cities with their villages.
Kirjath-Beo, which is Kirjath-Jerum, and Raba.
Two cities with their villages.
In the wilderness, Beth-Araba, Mirin, and Sikeka, and Nibshan,
and the city of Salt, and En-Gedai.
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.