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Verse 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 coast.

Verse 2

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

Verse 3

And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:

Verse 4

[From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.

Verse 5

And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

Verse 6

And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:

Verse 7

And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:

Verse 8

And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto 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:

Verse 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] Kirjathjearim:

Verse 10

And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

Verse 11

And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

Verse 12

And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the coast [thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Verse 13

¶ And unto 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.

Verse 14

And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Verse 15

And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.

Verse 16

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Verse 17

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

Verse 18

And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

Verse 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.

Verse 20

¶ This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

Verse 21

And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

Verse 22

And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

Verse 23

And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

Verse 24

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

Verse 25

And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is] Hazor,

Verse 26

Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

Verse 27

And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,

Verse 28

And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,

Verse 29

Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,

Verse 30

And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

Verse 31

And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

Verse 32

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:

Verse 33

[And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

Verse 34

And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

Verse 35

Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

Verse 36

And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

Verse 37

Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,

Verse 38

And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

Verse 39

Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

Verse 40

And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,

Verse 41

And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:

Verse 42

Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

Verse 43

And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

Verse 44

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

Verse 45

Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Verse 46

From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages:

Verse 47

Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:

Verse 48

And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

Verse 49

And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,

Verse 50

And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,

Verse 51

And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:

Verse 52

Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,

Verse 53

And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,

Verse 54

And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:

Verse 55

Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

Verse 56

And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

Verse 57

Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:

Verse 58

Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,

Verse 59

And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:

Verse 60

Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

Verse 61

In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Verse 62

And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

Verse 63

As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

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