Chapter 18 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.
And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet
received their inheritance.
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?
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord.
And there Joshua divided the land under the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
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.
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 Avan.
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz,
which is Bethel, southward.
And the border descended to Adorath Adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side
of the nether Bethhoran.
And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea
southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoran southward.
And the goings out thereof were at Kirjath Baal, which is Kirjath Jerim, a city of
the children of Judah.
This was the west quarter.
And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath Jerim.
And the border went out on the west, and went out to the well-waters of
Nephthoah.
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 Jebusai on the south,
and descended to En Rogel, and was drawn from the north and went forth to En
Shemesh, and went forth toward Goliath, which is over against the going up of
Adumim, and descended to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben, and passed along
toward the side over against Ereba, northward, and went down unto Ereba.
And the border passed along to the side of Bethogla, 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.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side.
This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coast thereof round
about, according to their families.
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their
families, were Jericho, and Bethogla, and the valley of Chizos, and Bethareba,
and Zemeram, and Bethel, and Avim, and Pera, and Aphra, and Kifer-ha-Yamani,
and Aphnai, and Geba, twelve cities with their villages, Gibeon, and Ramah,
and Beereth, and Mizpah, and Kephira, and Mosah, and Recham, and Irpil,
and Terilah, and Zelah, Eliph, and Jebusiah, which is Jerusalem,
Gibeoth, and Kirjath, fourteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to their families.
This concludes Disc Number Thirteen.