15:1 [This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of
Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom, the
wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the
south border.
15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt-sea,
from the bay that looketh southward:
15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and
passed along to Zin, and ascended on the south side to
Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
15:4 [From thence] it passed towards Azmon, and went out to the
river of Egypt; and the limits of that border were at the sea:
this shall be your south limit.
15:5 And the east border [was] the salt-sea, [even] to the end
of Jordan: and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from
the bay of the sea, at the uttermost part of Jordan:
15:6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by
the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone
of Bohan the son of Reuben:
15:7 And the border went up towards Debir from the valley of
Achor, and so northward looking towards Gilgal, that [is]
before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of
the river: and the border passed towards the waters of
En-shemesh, and the borders of it were at En-rogel:
15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom,
to the south side of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and
the border went up to the top of the mountain that [lieth]
before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of
the valley of the giants northward:
15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the
fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities
of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which [is]
Kirjath-jearim:
15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward to mount
Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim (which [is]
Chesalon) on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and
passed on to Timnah:
15:11 And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward:
and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount
Baalah, and went out to Jabneel; and the terminations of the
border were at the sea.
15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and its coast:
this [is] the border of the children of Judah round about,
according to their families.
15:13 And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to
Joshua, [even] the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city
is] Hebron.
15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the
name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife.
15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took
it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [to him], that she moved
him to ask of her father a field. And she lighted off [her]
ass; and Caleb said to her, What wouldst thou?
15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a
south land, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the
upper springs, and the nether springs.
15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families.
15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of
Judah towards the border of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and
Eder, and Jagur,
15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is]
Hazor,
15:26 Aman, and Shema, and Moladah,
15:27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet,
15:28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah,
15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 And Ziglag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:
15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
15:34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
fourteen cities with their villages:
15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahman, and Kithlish,
15:41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages:
15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages:
15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
15:46 From Ekron even to the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod,
with their villages:
15:47 Ashdod, with her towns and her villages; Gaza, with her
towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great
sea, and its border:
15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which [is] Debir,
15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their
villages:
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
15:53 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba (which [is] Hebron) and Zior;
nine cities with their villages:
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
15:59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with
their villages:
15:60 Kirjath-baal (which [is] Kirjath-jearim) and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages:
15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities
with their villages.
15:63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah could not expel them: but the Jebusites dwell
with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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