Joshua 12-17

English Standard Version

Kings Defeated by Moses

12 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from ^(A)the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all ^(B)the Arabah eastward: ²^(C)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and ^(D)from the middle of the valley as far as the ^(E)river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, ³and ^(F)the Arabah ^(G)to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of ^(H)the slopes of Pisgah; ⁴and ^(I)Og^[a] king of Bashan, one of the remnant of ^(J)the Rephaim, ^(K)who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei ⁵and ruled over ^(L)Mount Hermon and ^(M)Salecah and all Bashan ^(N)to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. ⁶^(O)Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord ^(P)gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated by Joshua

⁷And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to ^(Q)Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession ^(R)according to their allotments, ⁸^(S)in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of ^(T)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): ⁹^(U)the king of Jericho, one; ^(V)the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; ¹⁰^(W)the king of Jerusalem, one; ^(X)the king of Hebron, one; ¹¹^(Y)the king of Jarmuth, one; ^(Z)the king of Lachish, one; ¹²^(AA)the king of Eglon, one; ^(AB)the king of Gezer, one; ¹³^(AC)the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ¹⁵^(AD)the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ¹⁶^(AE)the king of Makkedah, one; ^(AF)the king of Bethel, one; ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; ¹⁹^(AG)the king of Madon, one; ^(AH)the king of Hazor, one; ²⁰^(AI)the king of Shimron-meron, one; ^(AJ)the king of Achshaph, one; ²¹^(AK)the king of Taanach, one; ^(AL)the king of Megiddo, one; ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; ²³^(AM)the king of Dor in ^(AN)Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,^[b] one; ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Land Still to Be Conquered

13 Now Joshua ^(AO)was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land ^(AP)to possess. ²^(AQ)This is the land that yet remains: all the ^(AR)regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³(from the ^(AS)Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ^(AT)there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of ^(AU)the Avvim, ⁴in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^(AV)the Amorites, ⁵and the land of the ^(AW)Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^(AX)Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^(AY)Lebo-hamath, ⁶all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to ^(AZ)Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive ^(BA)them out from before the people of Israel. Only ^(BB)allot the land to Israel ^(BC)for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷Now therefore ^(BD)divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh^[c] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, ^(BE)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ⁹^(BF)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and ^(BG)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ¹⁰^(BH)and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹and Gilead, and the ^(BI)region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ^(BJ)all Bashan to Salecah; ¹²^(BK)all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of ^(BL)the remnant of the Rephaim); ^(BM)these Moses had struck and driven out. ¹³^(BN)Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

¹⁴^(BO)To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶So their territory was from Aroer, ^(BP)which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by ^(BQ)Medeba; ¹⁷with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^(BR)Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ¹⁸^(BS)and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹and ^(BT)Kiriathaim, and ^(BU)Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰and ^(BV)Beth-peor, and ^(BW)the slopes of Pisgah, and ^(BX)Beth-jeshimoth, ²¹that is, ^(BY)all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ^(BZ)whom Moses defeated with ^(CA)the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ²²^(CB)Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ²⁵^(CC)Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^(CD)Rabbah, ²⁶and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^(CE)Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,^[d] ²⁷and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, ^(CF)Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of ^(CG)Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰Their region extended from ^(CH)Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all ^(CI)the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹and half Gilead, and ^(CJ)Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of ^(CK)Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

³²These are the inheritances that Moses distributed ^(CL)in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ³³^(CM)But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, ^(CN)just as he said to them.

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

14 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which ^(CO)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. ²Their inheritance was ^(CP)by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. ³^(CQ)For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, ^(CR)but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. ⁴For ^(CS)the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. ⁵The people of Israel did ^(CT)as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Caleb's Request and Inheritance

⁶Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(CU)Kenizzite said to him, “You know ^(CV)what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. ⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(CW)sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸But ^(CX)my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. ⁹And Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(CY)‘Surely the land ^(CZ)on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ^(DA)just as he said, these ^(DB)forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day ^(DC)eighty-five years old. ¹¹^(DD)I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and ^(DE)for going and coming. ¹²So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the ^(DF)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

¹³Then Joshua ^(DG)blessed him, and he gave ^(DH)Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, ^(DI)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁵^(DJ)Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.^[e] (Arba^[f] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) ^(DK)And the land had rest from war.

The Allotment for Judah

15 The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward ^(DL)to the boundary of Edom, to ^(DM)the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. ²And their south boundary ran from the end of the ^(DN)Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward. ³It goes out southward of ^(DO)the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka, ⁴passes along to Azmon, goes out by ^(DP)the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary. ⁵And the east boundary is the ^(DQ)Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan. ⁶And the boundary goes up to ^(DR)Beth-hoglah and passes along north of ^(DS)Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to ^(DT)the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. ⁷And the boundary goes up to Debir from ^(DU)the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite ^(DV)the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of ^(DW)En-shemesh and ends at ^(DX)En-rogel. ⁸Then the boundary goes up by ^(DY)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (^(DZ)that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley ^(EA)of Rephaim. ⁹Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain ^(EB)to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (^(EC)that is, Kiriath-jearim). ¹⁰And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to ^(ED)Beth-shemesh and passes along by ^(EE)Timnah. ¹¹The boundary goes out ^(EF)to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount ^(EG)Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea. ¹²And the west boundary was ^(EH)the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.

¹³According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, ^(EI)Kiriath-arba, that is, ^(EJ)Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak). ¹⁴And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, ^(EK)Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. ¹⁵And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. ^(EL)Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher. ¹⁶And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.” ¹⁷^(EM)And Othniel the son of Kenaz, ^(EN)the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. ¹⁸When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” ¹⁹She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

²⁰This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans. ²¹The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, ^(EO)Eder, Jagur, ²²Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, ²³Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, ²⁴^(EP)Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, ²⁵Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor), ²⁶Amam, Shema, Moladah, ²⁷Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet, ²⁸Hazar-shual, ^(EQ)Beersheba, Biziothiah, ²⁹Baalah, Iim, Ezem, ³⁰Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, ³¹^(ER)Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, ³²Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.

³³And in the lowland, ^(ES)Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, ³⁴Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam, ³⁵^(ET)Jarmuth, ^(EU)Adullam, ^(EV)Socoh, ^(EW)Azekah, ³⁶Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.

³⁷Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad, ³⁸Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, ³⁹^(EX)Lachish, Bozkath, ^(EY)Eglon, ⁴⁰Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, ⁴¹Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and ^(EZ)Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.

⁴²^(FA)Libnah, Ether, Ashan, ⁴³Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, ⁴⁴^(FB)Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

⁴⁵^(FC)Ekron, with its towns and its villages; ⁴⁶from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

⁴⁷^(FD)Ashdod, its towns and its villages; ^(FE)Gaza, its towns and its villages; to ^(FF)the Brook of Egypt, and ^(FG)the Great Sea with its coastline.

⁴⁸And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, ⁴⁹Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (^(FH)that is, Debir), ⁵⁰Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, ⁵¹^(FI)Goshen, Holon, and ^(FJ)Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.

⁵²Arab, Dumah, Eshan, ⁵³Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, ⁵⁴Humtah, ^(FK)Kiriath-arba (that is, ^(FL)Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

⁵⁵^(FM)Maon, ^(FN)Carmel, ^(FO)Ziph, Juttah, ⁵⁶Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, ⁵⁷Kain, Gibeah, and ^(FP)Timnah: ten cities with their villages.

⁵⁸Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor, ⁵⁹Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.

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

⁶¹In the wilderness, ^(FR)Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, ⁶²Nibshan, the City of Salt, and ^(FS)Engedi: six cities with their villages.

⁶³But the ^(FT)Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ^(FU)the people of Judah could not drive out, ^(FV)so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

The Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh

16 The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, ^(FW)into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel. ²Then ^(FX)going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites. ³Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower ^(FY)Beth-horon, then to ^(FZ)Gezer, and it ends at the sea.

⁴^(GA)The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

⁵The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was ^(GB)Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon, ⁶and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is ^(GC)Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah, ⁷then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and ^(GD)to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan. ⁸From ^(GE)Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans, ⁹together with ^(GF)the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages. ¹⁰However, ^(GG)they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made ^(GH)to do forced labor.

17 Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was ^(GI)the firstborn of Joseph. To ^(GJ)Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, ^(GK)were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war. ²And allotments were made ^(GL)to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.

³Now ^(GM)Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: ^(GN)Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ⁴They approached ^(GO)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, ^(GP)“The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. ⁵Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides ^(GQ)the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan, ⁶because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.

⁷The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to ^(GR)Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah. ⁸The land of ^(GS)Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim. ⁹^(GT)Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea, ¹⁰the land to the south being Ephraim's and that to the north being Manasseh's, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar. ¹¹Also in Issachar and in Asher ^(GU)Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of ^(GV)Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of ^(GW)Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of ^(GX)Megiddo and its villages; ^(GY)the third is Naphath.^[g] ¹²^(GZ)Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. ¹³Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites ^(HA)to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

¹⁴Then ^(HB)the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but ^(HC)one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am ^(HD)a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?” ¹⁵And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and ^(HE)the Rephaim, since ^(HF)the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.” ¹⁶The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have ^(HG)chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in ^(HH)the Valley of Jezreel.” ¹⁷Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, ¹⁸but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, ^(HI)though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”