The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Joshua 19
1 The second lot came out for Simeon,
even for the tribe ofthe children of Simeon
according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance
of the children of Judah.
2 They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
3 Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,
4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
5 Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
6 Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen
cities with their villages;
7 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four
cities with their villages;
8 and all the villages that were around
these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the
South. This is the inheritance ofthe tribe of
the children of Simeon according to their
families.
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 middle of their inheritance.
10 The third lot came up for the children
of Zebulun according to their families. The
border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
11 Their border went up westward, even
to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth.
It reached to the brook that is before
Jokneam.
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.
13 Fromthere it passed along eastward to
Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out
at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
14 The border turned around it on the
north to Hannathon; and it ended at the
valley of Iphtah El;
15 Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron,Idalah, and
Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
16 This is the inheritance of the children
of Zebulun according to their families,
these cities with their villages.
17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar,
evenfor the childrenofIssachar according
to their families.
18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
21 Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and
Beth Pazzez.
22 The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended atthe Jordan: sixteen cities with
their villages.
23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Issachar according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of
the children of Asher according to their
families.
25 Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten,
Achshaph,
26 Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It
reached to Carmel westward, and to
Shihorlibnath.
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 outto Cabul onthe
left hand,
28 and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and
Kanah, even to great Sidon.
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;
30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob:
twenty-two cities with their villages.
31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Asher according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
32 The sixth lot came out for the children
of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
33 Their border was from Heleph, from
the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and
Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.
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.
35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer,
Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath,
and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with
their villages.
39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe
of the children of Dan according to their
families.
41 The border of their inheritance was
Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.
47 The border ofthe childrenof 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 forefather.
48 This is the inheritance of the tribe
of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
49 So they finished distributing the land
for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to
Joshua the son of Nun among them.
50 According to Yahweh’s commandment, they gave him the city which he
asked, even Timnathserah in the hill
country of Ephraim; and he built the city,
and lived there.
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 Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So
they finished dividing the land.