Joshua 19

1verseThe second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

2verseThey had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

3verseHazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,

4verseEltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

5verseZiklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,

6verseBeth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

7verseAin, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;

8verseand all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

9verseOut 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.

10verseThe third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.

11verseTheir border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.

12verseIt turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.

13verseFrom there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.

14verseThe border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;

15verseKattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

16verseThis is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

17verseThe fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.

18verseTheir border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

19verseHapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,

20verseRabbith, Kishion, Ebez,

21verseRemeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.

22verseThe border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

23verseThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.

24verseThe fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

25verseTheir border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

26verseAllammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.

27verseIt 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 out to Cabul on the left hand,

28verseand Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon.

29verseThe 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;

30verseUmmah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.

31verseThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

32verseThe sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

33verseTheir border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan.

34verseThe 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.

35verseThe fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

36verseAdamah, Ramah, Hazor,

37verseKedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,

38verseIron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

39verseThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

40verseThe seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

41verseThe border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

42verseShaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

43verseElon, Timnah, Ekron,

44verseEltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

45verseJehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,

46verseMe Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.

47verseThe border of the children of 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.

48verseThis is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

49verseSo 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.

50verseAccording to the LORD’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.

51verseThese 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 the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.