(KJV) Joshua 18¹

⥃The Remainder Divided

[1] And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh², and set up³ the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. [2] And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. [3] And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long [are⁴] ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you? [4] Give out from among you three⁵ men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe⁶ it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me. [5] And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall⁷ abide in their coast on the south, and the house⁸ of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. [6] Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast⁹ lots for you here before the Lord our God. [7] But the Levites¹⁰ have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord [is] their inheritance: and Gad¹¹, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

[8] [¶]And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go¹² and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here¹³ cast lots for you before the Lord in Shiloh. [9] And the men went and passed through the land, and described¹⁴ it by cities into seven¹⁵ parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

[10] [¶]And Joshua cast lots¹⁶ for them in Shiloh before the Lord¹⁷: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

⥃Benjamin’s Inheritance

[11] And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children¹⁸ of Judah and the children of Joseph. [12] And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho¹⁹ on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness²⁰ of Beth–aven. [13] And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz²¹, which [is] Beth–el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth–adar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Beth–horon²². [14] And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Beth–horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath–baal²³, which [is] Kirjath–jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this [was] the west quarter. [15] And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah²⁴: [16] And the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son²⁵ of Hinnom, [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants²⁶ on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi²⁷ on the south, and descended to En–rogel²⁸, [17] And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En–shemesh²⁹, and went forth toward Geliloth³⁰, which [is] over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone³¹ of Bohan the son of Reuben, [18] And passed along toward the side over against Arabah³² northward, and went down unto Arabah: [19] And the border passed along to the side of Beth–hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay³³ of the salt³⁴ sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the³⁵ south coast. [20] And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.³⁶ [21] Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho³⁷, and Beth–hoglah³⁸, and the valley of Keziz, [22] And Beth–arabah³⁹, and Zemaraim⁴⁰, and Beth–el⁴¹, [23] And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah⁴², [24] And Chephar–haammonai, and Ophni⁴³, and Gaba⁴⁴; twelve cities with their villages: [25] Gibeon⁴⁵, and Ramah⁴⁶, and Beeroth⁴⁷, [26] And Mizpeh⁴⁸, and Chephirah⁴⁹, and Mozah, [27] And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, [28] And Zelah⁵⁰, Eleph, and Jebusi⁵¹, which [is] Jerusalem, Gibeath⁵², [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according⁵³ to their families.