Allotment for the tribe of Judah and for the sons of Joseph chapters
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📚This then was the allotment for the tribe of the children of Judah by their families: it reached the border of Edom, on the south the desert of Zin at the farthest southern point. 2 📚And their southern border was from the shore of the Salt Sea 📖, from the bay that faces south. 3 📚Then it went on south to Maaleh-Akrabbim and passed along to Zin and rose on the south side to Kadesh-Barnea and passed along to Hezron and went up to Adar and turned about to Karka. 4 📚From there it went to Azmon and continued to the river of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This will be your southern border. 5 📚And the eastern border was the Salt Sea, up to the end of the Jordan. And their northern border was from the bay of the sea at the extreme end of the Jordan. 6 📚And the border went up to Beth-Hoglah and continued to the north of Beth-Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben; 7 📚and the border went on up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, facing Gilgal, that is before the ascent to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border continued to the waters of En-Shemesh, and its end was at En-Rogel. 8 📚And the border proceeded by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (this is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that rises before the valley of Hinnom on the west, which is at the end of the Valley of the Giants on the north. 9 📚And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the spring of the water of Nephtoah, and went on to the cities of Mount Ephron, and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-Jearim. 10 📚And the border turned around from Baalah on the west to Mount Seir and passed along to the side of mount Jearim, which is Kesalon, on the north, and went down to Beth-Shemesh and continued on to Timnah. 11 📚And the border went on to the side of Ekron on the north; and the border was drawn to Shicron and continued along to Mount Baalah and went out to Jabneel. And the end of the border was at the Sea.
12 📚And the western border was at the Great Sea 📖 and its coast. This is the border around the children of Judah, according to their families.
Caleb Conquers Hebron and Debir
13 📚And he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. 14 📚And Caleb drove away from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15 📚And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir (previously the name of Debir was Kirjath-Sepher).
16 📚And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks Kirjath-Sepher and captures it”. 17 📚And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; and he gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage. 18 📚And it came about when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask a field from her father. And as she descended from her donkey Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?”
19 📚She answered, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me a land in the south 📖, give me also springs of water”. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
20 📚This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
21 📚And the most distant cities of the tribe of the children of Judah on the south toward the territory of Edom were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur 22 and Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah 23 📚and Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan, 24 📚Ziph and Telem and Bealoth, 25 and Hazor, Hadattah and Kerioth and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 📚Amam and Shema and Moladah 27 📚and Hazar-Gaddah and Heshmon and Beth-Palet, 28 📚and Hazar Shual and Beersheba and Bizjothjah, 29 📚Baalah and Iim and Azem, 30 📚and Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah, 31 📚and Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah, 32 📚and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities, with their villages.
33 📚And in the lowlands were Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah, 34 📚and Zanoah and Engannim, Tappuah and Enam, 35 📚Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah, 36 📚and Sharaim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages; 37 Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-Gad, 38 📚and Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel, 39 📚Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon, 40 and Cabbon and Lahmam and Kithlish, 41 📚and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages; 42 📚Libnah and Ether and Ashan, 43 and Jiphtah and Ashnah and Nezib, 44 📚and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages; 45 📚Ekron, with her towns and her villages; 46 📚from Ekron to the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages; 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 shoreline; 48 📚and in the mountains, Shamir and Jattir and Socoh, 49 📚and Dannah and Kirjath-Sannah, which is Debir, 50 and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim, 51 📚and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages; 52 📚Arab and Dumah and Eshean, 53 and Janum and Beth-Tappuah and Aphekah, 54 📚and Humtah and Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages; 55 📚Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah, 56 and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah, 57 📚Cain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages; 58 📚Halhul, Beth-Zur and Gedor, 59 and Maarath and Beth-Anoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages; 60 📚Kirjath-Baal, which is Kirjath-Jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages; 61 📚in the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin and Secacah, 62 📚and Nibshan, and the city of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
63 📚As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out, and the Jebusites live among the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
15:63 Jud 1:21; 2 Sam 5:6-7. The efforts of Judah and Benjamin were unsuccessful in driving out the Jebusites. Other tribes had similar difficulties – Jud 1:19-36. God had assured Joshua that no one would be able to withstand them if they were obedient to His law (Josh 1:5-8). The weakness or defeat, not only of Benjamin and Judah, but of other tribes also, was the result of partial obedience, and feeble faith. If we now fail to claim and experience victories in the heavenly places the reasons will be the same.⚜