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The land unconquered.

Joshua.

24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one. CHAP. XIII. 1

2 The bounds of the land not yet conquered 14, 33 The Lords facrifices are the Levites inheritance. 22 Balaam flain.

Ow Jofhua was old and ftricken in

him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be poffeffed.

2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philiftines, and all Gefhuri,

3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron north ward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philiftines; the Gazathites, and the Afhduthites, the Efhkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; alfo the Avites.

4 From the fouth, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is befide the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon toward the fun-rifing, from Baal-gad, under mount Hermon, unto the entring into Hamath.

6. All the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Mifrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Ifrael: only divide chou it by lot unto the Ifraelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manaffch,

8 With whom the Reubenites,and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Mofes gave them, beyond Jordan eaft-ward, even as Mofes the fervant of the LORD gave them:

9 From Aroer that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midft of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon:

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10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Hefhbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon:

11 And Gilead, and the border of the Gefhurites, and Maakathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Balcah:

r2 All the kingdom of Og in Balhan, which reigned in Afhtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants for thefe did Mofes fmite, and caft them out

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Reubens and Gads inheritance.

13 Nevertheless, the children of Ifrael expelled not the Gefhurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Gelhurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Ifraelites until this day.

14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the facrifices of the LORD God of Ifrael made by fire,

them.

15 And Mofes gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben, inheritance according to their families:

16 And their coaft was from Aroer that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba:

17 Hefhbon,and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,

18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-hahar, in the mount of thevalley, 20 And Beth-peor, and Afhdoth-pif gah, and Beth-jefhimoth,

24 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Hefhbon, whom Mofes fmote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

22 Balaam alfo the fon of Beor the fouthfayer did the children of Ifrael Alay with the fword, among them that were flain by them.

23 And the border of the children of Reuben, was Jordan and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities, and the villages thereof.

24 And Mofes gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad, according to their families:

25 And their coaft was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unte Aroct that is before Rabbah:

26 And from Hefhbon unto Ramach mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir:

27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the reft of the kingdom of Sihon king of Hefhbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the fea of Cinnereth, on the other fide Jordan caft-ward.

28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad, after their families, the cities and their villages. 29 And

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The lot of the nine tribes, &c.

Chap. xiv, xv.

Caleb's inheritance.

29 And Mofes gave inheritance un- fes the fervant of the LORD fent me from to the half-tribe of Manaffeh and Kadcfh-barnea, to efpy out the land; this was the poffeffion of the half-tribe of and I brought him word again, as it was the children of Manaffeh, by their fa- in mine heart. milies.

30 And their coaft was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bafhan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bafhan, threescore cities:

31 And half Gilead, and Afhtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bafhan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the fon of Manaffeh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

32 Thefe are the countries which Mofes did diftribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other fide Jordan by Jericho caft-ward.

-33 But unt the tribe of Levi Mofes gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Ifrael was their inheritance, as he faid unto them.

CHA P. XIV.

1 The nine tribes and an half are to have their inheritance by lot. 6 Caleb by pri viledge obtaineth Hebron.

Nd thefe are the countries which the

8 Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me, made the heart of the peo ple melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

9 And Mofes fware on that day, fay ing, Surely the land whereon thy feet have troden, fhall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for ever: becaufe thou haft wholly followed the LORD my God.

10 And now behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he faid, thefe forty and five years, even fince the LORD fpake this word unto Mofes, while the children of Ifrael wandred in the wildernefs and now lo, I am this day fourfcore and five years old.

r1 As yet I am as ftrong this day as I was in the day that Mofes fent me: as my ftrength was then, even fo is my ftrength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.

12 Now therefore give me this moun→ tain, whereof the LORD fpake in that day, (for thou heardft in that day

A children of Ifrael inherited in the how the Anakims were there, and that

land of Canaan, which Eleazar the prieft, and Jofhua the fon of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Ifrael diftributed for inheritance unto them.

2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Mofes, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

3 For Mofes had given the inheritance of two tribes, and an half-tribe, on the other fide Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

For the children of Jofeph were two tribes, Manaffeh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, fave cities to dwell in, with their fuburbs for their cattle, and for their fubftance. E

5 As the LORD commanded Mofes, fo the children of Ifrael did, and they divided the land.

ved Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caz leb the fon of Jephunneh the Kenezite, faid unto him, Thou knoweft the thing that the LORD faid unto Mofes the man of God, concerning me and thee, in Kadefh-barnea.

7 Forty years old was I when Mo

the cities were great and fenced) if fo be the LORD will be with me, then I fhall be able to drive them out, as the LORD faid.

13 And Joshua bleffed him, and gave unto Caleb the fon of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance.

14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the fon of Jephunneh the Kenezite, unto this day because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Ifrael.

15 And the name of Hebron before, was Kirjath-arba, which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had reft from war

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CHAP. XV.

The borders of the lot of Judah. 13 Ca lebs portion and conqueft. 16 Othniels valour and reward. 18 The request of Achfah. 63 The Jebusites not conquered.

His 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 fouth-ward, was the uttermoft part of the fouthcoaft..

2 And their fouth-border was from the fhore of the falt-fea, from the bay that looketh fouth-ward K3 3 And

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3 And it went out to the fouth-fide to Maaleh-acrabbim, and paffed along to Zin, and afcended up on the fouth-fide unto Kadesh-barnea: and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compafs to Karkaa.

4 From thence it paffed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of that coaft were at the fea: this fhall be your fouth coaft.

5 And the caft-border was the faltfea, even unto the end of Jordan; and their border in the north-quarter, was from the bay of the fea, at the uttermoft part of Jordan.

Achfahs request

children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Jofhua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

14 And Caleb drove thence the three fons of Anak, Shefhai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

15 And he went up thence to the inbabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-fepher.

16 And Caleb faid, He that fmiteth Kirjath-fepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achfah my daughter to wife.

17 And Othniel the fon of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave 6 And the border went up to Beth-him Achfah his daughter to wife. hogla, and paffed along by the north of Beth-arabah, and the border went up to the ftone of Bohan the fon of Reuben.

7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and fo north-ward looking toward Gilgal, that s before the going up to Adummim, which is on the fouth-fide of the river: and the border paffed towards the waters of En-fhemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel.

8 And the border went up by the valley of the fon of Hinnom, unto the fouth-fide of the Jebufite, the fame is Jerufalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain, that lieth before the valley of Hinnom, weft-ward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants north-ward.

9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto 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-jearimą?

10 And the border compaffed from Baalah weft-ward unto mount Seir, and paffed along unto the fide of mount Jearim (which is Chefalon) on the northfide, and went down to Beth-fhemeth, and paffed on to Timnah.

11 And the border went out unto the fide of Ekron north-ward, and the border was drawn to Shicron, and paffed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the fea.

12 And the weft-border was to the great fea, and the coaft thereof; this is the coaft of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.

13 And unto Caleb the fon of Je phunneh, he gave a part among the

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18 And it came to pafs, as the came unto him, that he moved him to ask of her father a field and the lighted off her afs; and Caleb faid unto her, What wouldft thou?

19 Who anfwered, Give me a blef fing; for thou haft given me a fouthland, give me alfo fprings of water: and he gave her the upper fprings, and the nether (prings.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

21 And the uttermoft cities of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the coaft of Edom fouth-ward, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

24 Ziph, and Telen, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Aman, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and He@hmon, and Beth-palet,

28 And Hazar-fhual, and Beer-fheba, and Bizjothjah,

29. Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, 30 And Eltolad, and Chefil, and Hormah,

31 And Ziglag, and Madmannah, and. San'annah,

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32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages. 33 And in the valley, Ehtaol, and. Zoreah, and Afhnah,

34 And Zanoah,and En-gannim,Tappuah, and Enam,,

35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gede

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38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

39. Lachifh, and Bozkath, and Eglon, 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Kithlifh,

41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah: fixteen cities with their villages.

42 Libnah, and Ether, and Afhan, 43 And Jiphtah, and Afhnah, and Nezib,

44 And Keilah,and Achzib,and Marefhah: nine cities with their villages. 45 Ekron with her towns, and her villages.

46 From Ekron even unto the fea, all that lay near Afhdod with their villages. 47. Afhdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great fea, and the border thereof. 48

And in the mountains, Shamit,

and Jattir, and Socoh,

49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-fammah, which is Debit,

50 And Anab, and Efhtemoh, and Anim,

51 And Gofhen, and Holon, and Gi loh: eleven cities with their villages. 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Efheon, 13 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,

34 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba (which is Hebron ) and Zior: nine cities with their villages. :

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55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

36 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,pronba

7 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah : ten cities with their villages.

58. Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor, 59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth,and Eltekon: fix cities with their villages. 60 Kirjath-baal (which is Kirjachjearim) and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.

61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabab, Middin, and Secacah,

62 And Nibsban, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi: fix cities with their vil lages.

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63 As for the Jebafites the inhabitants of Jerufalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebu fites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerufalem unto this day...

CHA P. XVI.

The general borders of the fons of Foo Jeph. 5 The border of the inheritance of Ephraim. 10 The Canaanites not conquered.

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Nd the lot of the children Jofeph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the caft, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-cl,

2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and paffeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

3 And goeth down weft-ward, to the coaft of Japhleri, unto the coaft of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer and the goings out thereof are at the fea

4. Sothe children of Joseph, Manaffel and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

5 And the border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus: even the border of their inhe ritance on the east-fide, was Atarothaddar, unto Beth-horon the upper..

6 And the border went out toward the fea, to Michmetha on the north fide, and the border went about caft ward unto Taanath-fhiloh, and paffed by it on the caft to Janohah:

And it went down from Janohah, to Ataroth and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

8 The border went out from Tappaaly weft-ward unto the river Kanah:and the goings out thereof were at the fea This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephrain by their families.

9 And the feparate cities for the chil dren of Ephraim were among the inhe ritance of the children of Manaffch, all the cities with their villages.

to And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and ferve under tribute: CHAP. XVII.

1 The lot of Manaffeb. 7 His coaft. 12 The Canaanites not driven out. 14 The chil dren of Fofeph obtain another lot.

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Here was alfo a lot for the tribe of Manaffch; (for he was the firft born of Jofeph) to wit, for Machir the firft-born of Manaffeh the father of Gi lead because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

2 There was alfo a lot for the reft of the children of Manaffeh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Africl, and for the chil dren of Shechem, and for the children

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fon of Gilead, the fon of Mafon of Manaffeh, had no fons, ters: and thefe are the names ughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

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given me but one lot and one portion
to inherit, feeing I am a great people,
forafmuch as the LORD hach bleffed me
hitherto?

15 And Joshua anfwered them, If thou they came near before Eleazar be a great people, then get thee up to the , and before Joshua the fon of wood-country, and cut down for thy felf i before the princes, faying, there in the land of the Perizzites and D commanded Mofes to give of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too eritance among our brethren: narrow for thee. according to the commandthe LORD, he gave them an ce among the brethren of their

there fell ten portions to Maefide the land of Gilead and which were on the other fide

ufe the daughters of Manaffeh heritance among his fons: and f Manaffehs fons had the land 1.

nd the coaft of Manaffeh was er to Michmethah, that lieth nechem, and the border went the right hand, unto the inhaEn-tappuah.

Manaffeh had the land of Tapt Tappuah on the border of belonged to the children of

the coaft defcended unto the

of the

16 And the children of Jofeph faid, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley, have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-fhean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

17 And Jofhua fpake unto the house
of Jofeph, even to Ephraim, and to Ma-
naffch, faying, Thou art a great people,
and haft great power: thou shalt not
have one lot only..

18 But the mountain fhall be thine,
for it is a wood: and thou shalt cut it
down: and the out-goings of it fhall be
thine: for thou fhalt drive out the Ca-
naanites, though they have iron chari-
ots, and though they be strong.
CHAP. XVIII.
1 The tabernacle is fet up at Shiloh.
2 The remainder of the land is de-
fcribed, 10 and divided by lot.

of the es of Ephraim are among the children of Ifrael affembled toge Manaffch: the coaft of Manaf-ther at Shiloh, and fet up the tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was fubdued before them.!

was on the north-fide of the the out-goings of it were at

th-ward it was Ephraims, and rd it was Manaffehs, and the Es border, and they met toAfher on the north, and in -n the caft.

Manaffeh had in Iffachar and Bech-fhean and her towns, and d her towns, and the inhabior and her towns, and the in of En-dor and her towns, and itants of Taanach and her nd the inhabitants of Megiddo wns, even three countries.

the children of Manaffeh

2 And there remained among the children of Ifrael feven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

3 And Joshua faid unto the children of Ifrael, How long are you flack to go to poffefs the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe and I will fend them, and they fhall rife and go through the land, and defcribe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shall come again to me.

5 And they fhall divide it into feyen parts. Indah shall abide in their coaft

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