Joshua 18

Rest of the Land Divided

1Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at 1Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

2But there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not divided their inheritance. 3So Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “2How long will you 3put off entering to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? 4Provide for yourselves three men from 4each tribe so that I may send them, and that they may arise and walk through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance; then they shall 5return to me. 5And they shall divide it into seven portions; 6Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north. 6And you shall write a description of the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. 7Then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. 7For 8the Levites have no portion among you, because the priesthood of the Lord is 9their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh also have received their inheritance eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.”

8Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to write a description of the land, saying, “Go and walk through the land and write a description of it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in 10Shiloh.” 9So the men went and passed through the land, and wrote a description of it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua at the camp at Shiloh. 1011Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land for the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

The Territory of Benjamin

11Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the territory of their lot 12lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph. 1213Their border on the north side was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and 14it ended at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13Then from there the border continued to 15Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which lies on the south of 16lower Beth-horon. 14And the border changed direction from there and turned around on the west side southward, from the hill which lies opposite Beth-horon southward; and 17it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side. 15Then the 18south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went westward and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. 16Then the border went down to the edge of the hill which is 19in the 20Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. 17Then it turned northward and went to En-shemesh, and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the 21stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18And it continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah. 19Then the border continued to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the 22border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the southern border. 20Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families, and according to its borders all around.

21Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz, 22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel, 23Avvim, Parah, and Ophrah, 24Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and 23Geba; twelve cities with their villages. 25Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth, 26Mizpeh, Chephirah, and Mozah, 27Rekem, Irpeel, and Taralah, 2824Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the 25sons of Benjamin according to their families.