Joshua 19

¹The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of Simeon, according to its families; and its inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the tribe of Judah. ²And it had for its inheritance Beer-sheba, Sheba, Molaʹdah, ³Hazar-shuʹal, Balah, Ezem, ⁴Eltoʹlad, Bethul, Hormah, ⁵Ziklag, Beth-marʹcaboth, Haʹzar-suʹsah, ⁶Beth-lebaʹoth, and Sharuʹhen—thirteen cities with their villages; ⁷En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages; ⁸together with all the villages round about these cities as far as Baʹalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon according to its families. ⁹The inheritance of the tribe of Simeon formed part of the territory of Judah; because the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them, the tribe of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

¹⁰The third lot came up for the tribe of Zebʹulun, according to its families. And the territory of its inheritance reached as far as Sarid; ¹¹then its boundary goes up westward, and on to Marʹeal, and touches Dabʹbesheth, then the brook which is east of Jokʹne-am; ¹²from Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisʹloth-taʹbor; thence it goes to Dabʹerath, then up to Japhiʹa; ¹³from there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neʹah; ¹⁴then on the north the boundary turns about to Hanʹnathon, and it ends at the valley of Iphʹtahel; ¹⁵and Kattath, Nahalʹal, Shimron, Iʹdalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages. ¹⁶This is the inheritance of the tribe of Zebʹulun, according to its families—these cities with their villages.

¹⁷The fourth lot came out for Isʹsachar, for the tribe of Isʹsachar, according to its families. ¹⁸Its territory included Jezreel, Chesulʹloth, Shunem, ¹⁹Haphʹara-im, Shion, Anaʹharath, ²⁰Rabbith, Kishʹion, Ebez, ²¹Remeth, En-ganʹnim, En-hadʹdah, Beth-pazʹzez; ²²the boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazuʹmah, and Beth-sheʹmesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen cities with their villages. ²³This is the inheritance of the tribe of Isʹsachar, according to its families—the cities with their villages.

²⁴The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its families. ²⁵Its territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achʹshaph, ²⁶Allamʹmelech, Amad, and Mishal; on the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libʹnath, ²⁷then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebʹulun and the valley of Iphʹtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiʹel; then it continues in the north to Cabul, ²⁸Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great; ²⁹then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre; then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib, ³⁰Ummah, Aphek and Rehob—twenty-two cities with their villages. ³¹This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher according to its families—these cities with their villages.

³²The sixth lot came out for the tribe of Naphʹtali, for the tribe of Naphʹtali, according to its families. ³³And its boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Za-ananʹnim, and Adʹami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; and it ended at the Jordan; ³⁴then the boundary turns westward to Azʹnoth-tabor, and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebʹulun at the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah on the east at the Jordan. ³⁵The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinʹnereth, ³⁶Adʹamah, Ramah, Hazor, ³⁷Kedesh, Edʹre-i, En-haʹzor, ³⁸Yiron, Migʹdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-sheʹmesh—nineteen cities with their villages. ³⁹This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphʹtali according to its families—the cities with their villages.

⁴⁰The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan, according to its families. ⁴¹And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshʹta-ol, Ir-sheʹmesh, ⁴²Sha-alabʹbin, Aiʹjalon, Ithlah, ⁴³Elon, Timnah, Ekron, ⁴⁴Elʹtekeh, Gibʹbethon, Baʹalath, ⁴⁵Jehud, Bene-beʹrak, Gath-rimʹmon, ⁴⁶and Me-jarʹkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa. ⁴⁷When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, the Danites went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and putting it to the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor. ⁴⁸This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to their families—these cities with their villages.

⁴⁹When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun. ⁵⁰By command of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, Timʹnath-seʹrah in the hill country of Eʹphraim; and he rebuilt the city, and settled in it.

⁵¹These are the inheritances which Eleaʹzar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.