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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Joshua 18 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Joshua 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/17.htm" title="Joshua 17">◄</a> Joshua 18 <a href="../joshua/19.htm" title="Joshua 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/joshua/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Allotment of the Remaining Land</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of your fathers, has given you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave them.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in Shiloh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.</p> <p class="heading">The Inheritance for Benjamin</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See 15:9; Hebrew westward">a</a></sup></span> to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and passing on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-arabah<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew to the shoulder over against the Arabah">b</a></sup></span> it goes down to the Arabah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba—twelve cities with their villages: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Zela, Haeleph, Jebus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew the Jebusite">c</a></sup></span> (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Gibeath">d</a></sup></span> and Kiriath-jearim<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew Kiriath">e</a></sup></span>—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> See 15:9; Hebrew <i>westward</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Septuagint; Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">to</span> the shoulder over against the Arabah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew <i>the Jebusite</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Hebrew <i>Gibeath</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Septuagint; Hebrew <i>Kiriath</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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