Joshua, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was
in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. {19:2} They
had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, {19:3} Hazar
Shual, Balah, Ezem, {19:4} Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, {19:5} Ziklag,
Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, {19:6} Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen;
thirteen cities with their villages; {19:7} Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and
Ashan; four cities with their villages; {19:8} and all the villages
that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon
according to their families. {19:9} Out of the part of the children of
Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion
of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children
of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
{19:10} The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according
to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
{19:11} Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to
Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam. {19:12} It
turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of
Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
{19:13} From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to
Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah. {19:14}
The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at
the valley of Iphtah El; {19:15} Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah,
and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. {19:16} This is the
inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families,
these cities with their villages.
{19:17} The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children
of Issachar according to their families. {19:18} Their border was to
Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, {19:19} Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
{19:20} Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, {19:21} Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah,
and Beth Pazzez. {19:22} The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and
Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with
their villages. {19:23} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with
their villages.
{19:24} The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families. {19:25} Their border was Helkath,
Hali, Beten, Achshaph, {19:26} Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached
to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath. {19:27} It turned toward the
sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of
Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on
the left hand, {19:28} and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to
great Sidon. {19:29} The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city
of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the
region of Achzib; {19:30} Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two
cities with their villages. {19:31} This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these
cities with their villages.
{19:32} The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even
for the children of Naphtali according to their families. {19:33}
Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adaminekeb,
and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan. {19:34} The border
turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It
reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and
to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise. {19:35} The fortified
cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, {19:36} Adamah,
Ramah, Hazor, {19:37} Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, {19:38} Iron, Migdal
El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their
villages. {19:39} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their
villages.
{19:40} The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Dan according to their families. {19:41} The border of their
inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh, {19:42} Shaalabbin,
Aijalon, Ithlah, {19:43} Elon, Timnah, Ekron, {19:44} Eltekeh,
Gibbethon, Baalath, {19:45} Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, {19:46} Me
Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. {19:47} The
border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children
of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it
with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and
called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. {19:48} This
is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to
their families, these cities with their villages.
{19:49} So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua
the son of Nun in their midst. {19:50} According to the commandment of
the LORD, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in
the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
{19:51} These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of
the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh
before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an
end of dividing the land.
{20:1} The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, {20:2} "Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I
spoke to you by Moses, {20:3} that the manslayer who kills any person
accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you
for a refuge from the avenger of blood. {20:4} He shall flee to one of
those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city,
and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They
shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he
may live among them. {20:5} If the avenger of blood pursue after him,
then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he
struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.
{20:6} He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to
his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"
{20:7} They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of
Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. {20:8} Beyond the
Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in
the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the
tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. {20:9}
These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and
for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person
unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the
avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.
{21:1} Then the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites came near to
Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of
fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. {21:2} They
spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD
commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for
our livestock."
{21:3} The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their
inheritance, according to the commandment of the LORD, these cities
with their suburbs. {21:4} The lot came out for the families of the
Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites,
had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe
of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin. {21:5} The rest
of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of
the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the
half-tribe of Manasseh. {21:6} The children of Gershon had thirteen
cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the
tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the
half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. {21:7} The children of Merari
according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of
Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
{21:8} The children of Israel gave these cities with their suburbs by
lot to the Levites, as the LORD commanded by Moses. {21:9} They gave
out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name: {21:10}
and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the
Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first
lot. {21:11} They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of
Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its
suburbs around it. {21:12} But they gave the fields of the city and
its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. {21:13}
To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs,
the city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah with its suburbs, {21:14}
Jattir with its suburbs, Eshtemoa with its suburbs, {21:15} Holon with
its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, {21:16} Ain with its suburbs,
Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; nine
cities out of those two tribes. {21:17} Out of the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, {21:18} Anathoth with
its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:19} All the
cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities
with their suburbs.
{21:20} The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even
the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of
the tribe of Ephraim. {21:21} They gave them Shechem with its suburbs
in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Gezer with its suburbs, {21:22} Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth
Horon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:23} Out of the tribe of Dan,
Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, {21:24} Aijalon
with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:25}
Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath
Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. {21:26} All the cities of the
families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their
suburbs.
{21:27} They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its
suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be Eshterah with
its suburbs; two cities. {21:28} Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion
with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, {21:29} Jarmuth with its
suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities. {21:30} Out of the
tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs,
{21:31} Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four
cities. {21:32} Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with
its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammothdor with its
suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities. {21:33} All the
cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen
cities with their suburbs.
{21:34} To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, Kartah
with its suburbs, {21:35} Dimnah with its suburbs, and Nahalal with
its suburbs; four cities. {21:36} Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with its suburbs, Jahaz with its suburbs, {21:37} Kedemoth with its
suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. {21:38} Out of
the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of
refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, {21:39}
Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
{21:40} All these were the cities of the children of Merari according
to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their
lot was twelve cities.
{21:41} All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession
of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
{21:42} Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It
was this way with all these cities.
{21:43} So the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to
give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it. {21:44} The
LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to
their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. The
LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. {21:45} Nothing
failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of
Israel. All came to pass.
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