Joshua 18

1The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.Cross-references: Josh 19:51 · Josh 21:2 · Josh 22:9 · Judg 18:31 · Judg 21:19 · 1Sam 1:3 · +8 more

2Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

3Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?Cross-references: Judg 18:9 · Prov 2:2 · Prov 10:4 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 15:19 · Eccl 9:10 · +5 more

4Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; then they shall come to me.Cross-references: Num 1:4 · Num 13:2 · Josh 3:12 · Josh 4:2 · Josh 18:3 · Josh 18:6 · +1 more

5They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.Cross-references: Josh 15:1 · Josh 16:1 · Josh 19:1

6You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.Cross-references: Num 26:54 · Num 33:54 · Num 34:13 · Josh 14:2 · Josh 18:8 · Josh 18:10 · +4 more

7However, the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”Cross-references: Num 18:20 · Num 18:23 · Num 32:29 · Deut 3:12 · Deut 4:47 · Deut 10:9 · +3 more

8The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to survey the land, saying, “Go walk through the land, survey it, and come again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.”Cross-references: Gen 13:17 · Josh 7:16 · Josh 13:7 · Josh 14:1 · Josh 15:1 · Josh 18:1 · +5 more

9The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.Cross-references: Acts 13:19

10Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.Cross-references: Josh 18:6 · Josh 18:8 · Josh 19:51 · Ps 16:5 · Ps 47:4 · Ps 61:5 · +8 more

11The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.Cross-references: Deut 10:1 · Deut 13:12 · Josh 15:1 · Josh 16:1

12Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.Cross-references: Josh 2:1 · Josh 3:16 · Josh 6:1 · Josh 7:2 · Josh 16:1 · Hos 4:15 · +2 more

13The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.Cross-references: Gen 28:19 · Josh 10:11 · Josh 16:2 · Josh 16:5 · Josh 21:22 · Judg 1:22

14The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.Cross-references: Josh 15:9 · Josh 15:60 · 1Sam 7:1 · 2Sam 6:2 · 1Chr 13:5

15The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.Cross-references: Josh 15:9

16The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.Cross-references: Josh 15:7 · Josh 15:63 · Josh 18:28 · Judg 1:8 · Judg 1:21 · Judg 19:10 · +12 more

17It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.Cross-references: Josh 15:6

18It passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.Cross-references: Josh 15:6 · Josh 15:61

19The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.Cross-references: Gen 14:3 · Gen 19:25 · Num 34:3 · Deut 3:17 · Josh 3:16 · Josh 12:3 · +2 more

20The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.

21Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,Cross-references: Josh 2:1 · Josh 6:1 · Josh 15:6 · Josh 18:12 · Josh 18:19 · Luke 10:30 · +1 more

22Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,Cross-references: Gen 10:18 · Josh 15:6 · Josh 18:18 · 1Ki 12:29 · 2Chr 13:4

23Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,Cross-references: 1Sam 13:17

24Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.Cross-references: Josh 21:17 · Ezra 2:26 · Neh 7:30 · Isa 10:29

25Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,Cross-references: Josh 7:17 · Josh 9:17 · Josh 10:2 · Josh 15:34 · 1Sam 1:1 · 1Ki 3:4 · +4 more

26Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,Cross-references: Josh 9:17 · Judg 10:17 · Ezra 2:25

27Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

28Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.Cross-references: Num 26:54 · Num 33:54 · Josh 15:8 · Josh 15:63 · Josh 18:16 · Judg 19:12 · +7 more