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Joshua 13

    ²This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites:

    ³From the Shihor [River] which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, all of it counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, and those of the Avvites;

    ⁴In the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,

    ⁵And the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon toward the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the gate of Hamath.

    ⁶As for all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians, I will Myself drive them out from before the Israelites; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

    ⁷So now divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    ⁸With the other half-tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:

    ⁹From Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;

    ¹⁰And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;

    ¹¹And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah--

    ¹²All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and alone was left of the Rephaim [giants]; for these Moses had defeated and driven out.

    ¹³Yet the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell among [them] still.

    ¹⁴Only to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the sacrifices made by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He said to him.

    ¹⁵And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families:

    ¹⁶Their territory was from Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

    ¹⁷With Heshbon and all its cities which are on the plain; Dibon, Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,

    ¹⁸Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

    ¹⁹Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

    ²⁰Beth-peor, Pisgah's slopes, and Beth-jeshimoth,

    ²¹All the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated along with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

    ²²Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, the Israelites also killed with the sword among the rest of their slain.^(A)

    ²³And the border of the Reubenites was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

    ²⁴Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of the Gadites according to their families.

    ²⁵Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer east of Rabbah;

    ²⁶And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir;

    ²⁷And in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth east of the Jordan.

    ²⁸This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

    ²⁹And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was allotted to them according to their families.

    ³⁰Their region extended from Mahanaim through all Bashan, the entire kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,

    ³¹And half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the people of Machir son of Manasseh for half of the Machirites according to their families.

    ³²These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

    ³³But to the tribe of Levi, Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He told them.

Joshua 14

    ²Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord commanded Moses, for the nine and one-half tribes.

    ³For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them,

    ⁴For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no part was given in the land to the Levites except cities in which to live, with their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

    ⁵As the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites did, and they divided the land.

    ⁶Then the people of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea.

    ⁷Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout out the land. And I brought him a report as it was in my heart.

    ⁸But my brethren who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.

    ⁹And Moses swore on that day, Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.^(B)

    ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

    ¹¹Yet I am as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so is my strength now for war and to go out and to come in.

    ¹²So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke that day. For you heard then how the [giantlike] Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified; if the Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.

    ¹³Then Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

    ¹⁴So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

    ¹⁵The name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba [city of Arba]. This Arba was the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

Joshua 15

    ²And their south boundary was from the end of the Salt [Dead] Sea, from the bay that faces southward;

    ³It went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, and turned about to Karka,

    ⁴Passed along to Azmon, went out by the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern frontier.

    ⁵The eastern boundary was the Salt [Dead] Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern boundary was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

    ⁶And the boundary went up to Beth-hogla and passed along north of Beth-arabah and [it] went up to the [landmark] Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

    ⁷And the boundary went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent to Adummim on the south side of the valley; and it passed on to the waters of En-shemesh and ended at En-rogel.

    ⁸Then the boundary went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom] at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite [city]--that is, Jerusalem; and the boundary went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

    ⁹Then the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and went on to the cities of Mount Ephron; then it bent round to Baalah, that is, Kiriath-jearim.

    ¹⁰And the boundary went around west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the northern side of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, went down to Beth-shemesh, and then passed on by Timnah.

    ¹¹And the boundary went out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then bent round to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel. Then the boundary ended at the sea.

    ¹²And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary round about the people of Judah according to their families.

    ¹³And to Caleb son of Jephunneh, [Joshua] gave a part among the people of Judah, as the Lord commanded [him]; it was Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, [named for] Arba the father of Anak.

    ¹⁴And Caleb drove from there the three sons of Anak--Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai--the descendants of Anak.

    ¹⁵He went up from there against the people of Debir. Debir was formerly named Kiriath-sepher.

    ¹⁶Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

    ¹⁷And Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

    ¹⁸When Achsah came to Othniel, she got his consent to ask her father for a field. Then she returned to Caleb and when she lighted off her donkey, Caleb said, What do you wish?

    ¹⁹Achsah answered, Give me a present. Since you have set me in the [dry] Negeb, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the [sloping field with] upper and lower springs.

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

    ²¹The cities of the tribe of Judah in the extreme south toward the boundary of Edom were: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

    ²²Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

    ²³Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

    ²⁴Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

    ²⁵Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (Hazor),

    ²⁶Amam, Shema, Moladah,

    ²⁷Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,

    ²⁸Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

    ²⁹Baalah, Iim, Ezem,

    ³⁰Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

    ³¹Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

    ³²Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities were twenty-nine [later thirty-six] with their villages.

    ³³In the lowland: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

    ³⁴Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

    ³⁵Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

    ³⁶Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

    ³⁷Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,

    ³⁸Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

    ³⁹Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

    ⁴⁰Cabbon, Lahmas, Chitlish,

    ⁴¹Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

    ⁴²Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

    ⁴³Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

    ⁴⁴Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

    ⁴⁵Ekron, with its towns and villages.

    ⁴⁶From Ekron to the sea, all that lay beside Ashdod, with their villages;

    ⁴⁷Ashdod, with its towns and its villages; Gaza, with its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt, and the Great [Mediterranean] Sea with its coastline.

    ⁴⁸In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

    ⁴⁹Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),

    ⁵⁰Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

    ⁵¹Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

    ⁵²Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

    ⁵³Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,

    ⁵⁴Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

    ⁵⁵Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

    ⁵⁶Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

    ⁵⁷Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

    ⁵⁸Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,

    ⁵⁹Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

    ⁶⁰Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

    ⁶¹In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,

    ⁶²Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.

    ⁶³But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

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⁵⁷Now the time that Elizabeth should be delivered came, and she gave birth to a son.

    ⁵⁸And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy on her, and they rejoiced with her.

    ⁵⁹And it occurred that on the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were intending to call him Zachariah after his father,^(A)

    ⁶⁰But his mother answered, Not so! But he shall be called John.

    ⁶¹And they said to her, None of your relatives is called by that name.

    ⁶²And they inquired with signs to his father [as to] what he wanted to have him called.

    ⁶³Then Zachariah asked for a writing tablet and wrote, His name is John. And they were all astonished.

    ⁶⁴And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he began to speak, blessing and praising and thanking God.

    ⁶⁵And awe and reverential fear came on all their neighbors; and all these things were discussed throughout the hill country of Judea.

    ⁶⁶And all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, Whatever will this little boy be then? For the hand of the Lord was [^[a]so evidently] with him [protecting and aiding him].

    ⁶⁷Now Zachariah his father was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

    ⁶⁸Blessed (praised and extolled and thanked) be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and brought deliverance and redemption to His people!

    ⁶⁹And He has raised up a Horn of salvation [a mighty and valiant Helper, the Author of salvation] for us in the house of David His servant--

    ⁷⁰This is as He promised by the mouth of His holy prophets from the most ancient times [in the memory of man]--

    ⁷¹That we should have deliverance and be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who detest and pursue us with hatred;

    ⁷²To make true and show the mercy and compassion and kindness [promised] to our forefathers and to remember and carry out His holy covenant [to bless, which is ^[b]all the more sacred because it is made by God Himself],

    ⁷³That covenant He sealed by oath to our forefather Abraham:

    ⁷⁴To grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our foes, might serve Him fearlessly

    ⁷⁵In holiness (divine consecration) and righteousness [in accordance with the everlasting principles of right] within His presence all the days of our lives.

    ⁷⁶And you, little one, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go on before the face of the Lord to make ready His ways,^(B)

    ⁷⁷To bring and give the knowledge of salvation to His people in the forgiveness and remission of their sins.

    ⁷⁸Because of and through the heart of tender mercy and loving-kindness of our God, a Light from on high will dawn upon us and visit [us]^(C)

    ⁷⁹To shine upon and give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace.^(D)

    ⁸⁰And the little boy grew and became strong in spirit; and he was in the deserts (wilderness) until the day of his appearing to Israel [the commencement of his public ministry].