Thematic Bible
Joshua 18:1 (show verse)
The entire congregation of the {Israelites} assembled [at] Shiloh, and they set up there the tent of meeting, and the land was subdued before them.
Joshua 18:2 (show verse)
And seven tribes remained among the {Israelites} who had not been apportioned their inheritance.
Joshua 18:3 (show verse)
And Joshua said to the {Israelites}, "{How long} [will] you be slack about going to take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has given you?
Joshua 18:4 (show verse)
Provide three men {from each tribe}, and I will send them so that they may begin to go through the land and write [a description of] it {according to their inheritance}, and let them come to me.
Joshua 18:5 (show verse)
They will divide it among themselves into seven portions; {Judah will maintain its border} from [the] south, and {the house of Joseph will maintain its border} from [the] north.
Joshua 18:6 (show verse)
Describe the land [in] seven divisions, and bring [it] to me here; I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
Joshua 18:7 (show verse)
The Levites among you have no portion, for their inheritance [is] the priesthood of Yahweh; Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses Yahweh's servant gave to them."
Joshua 18:8 (show verse)
And {the men went immediately}, and Joshua commanded the ones going to describe the land, saying, "Go and walk about through the land, write [a description], and return to me, and here I will cast a lot for you before Yahweh at Shiloh."
Joshua 18:9 (show verse)
And the men went and passed through the land, and they {described} the cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp [at] Shiloh,
Joshua 18:10 (show verse)
and Joshua cast a lot for them at Shiloh before Yahweh, and there he divided the land for the {Israelites}, {to each a portion}.
Joshua 18:11 (show verse)
And the allotment of the tribe of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the border of their allotment fell between the descendants of Judah and the descendants of Joseph.
Joshua 18:12 (show verse)
Their northern border began at the Jordan and went up to the slope of Jericho on [the] north and continued into the hill country to the west; {it ends} at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
Joshua 18:13 (show verse)
The border passes [on] from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that [is], Bethel); then the border goes down to Ataroth Addar to the mountain that is south of Lower Beth-Horon.
Joshua 18:14 (show verse)
Then the border changes direction and turns to the western side southward, from the mountain that {is opposite} Beth-Horon to the south. {It ends} at Kiriath Baal (that [is], Kiriath Jearim), a town belonging to the descendants of Judah. This [is the] western side.
Joshua 18:15 (show verse)
[The] southern side [begins] on the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim, and the border continues to the west to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;
Joshua 18:16 (show verse)
the border goes down to the foot of the mountain, which [is] opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which [is] in the valley of Rephaim to the north; then it does down the valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south, and then it goes down [to] En Rogel.
Joshua 18:17 (show verse)
It changes direction from [the] north, and it continues [to] En Shemesh; it goes out to Geliloth, which [is] opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it goes down [to] the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben.
Joshua 18:18 (show verse)
It passes [on] to the slope opposite the Arabah to the north, and it goes down to the Arabah.
Joshua 18:19 (show verse)
The border passes [on] to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and {ends} at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border.
Joshua 18:20 (show verse)
The Jordan forms its border on the eastern side. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, its borders that surrounds [them], according to their families.
Joshua 18:21 (show verse)
Now the towns of the tribes of the descendants of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Joshua 18:22 (show verse)
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Joshua 18:23 (show verse)
Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
Joshua 18:24 (show verse)
Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities and their villages.
Joshua 18:25 (show verse)
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
Joshua 18:26 (show verse)
Mizpeh, Kephirah, Mozah,
Joshua 18:27 (show verse)
Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
Joshua 18:28 (show verse)
Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that [is], Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath; fourteen cities and their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the descendants of Benjamin according to their families.