Joshua 19

1The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of Simeon by their clans. Their inheritance lay within the inheritance of the people of Judah.

2Their inheritance included Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah,

3Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,

4Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

5Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,

6Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen towns with their villages;

7Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan: four towns with their villages;

8and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon by their clans.

9The inheritance of the people of Simeon was taken from the share of the people of Judah, because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them. So the people of Simeon received their inheritance within Judah’s inheritance.

10The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun by their clans. The border of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.

11Their border went up westward to Maralah, touched Dabbesheth, and touched the wadi opposite Jokneam.

12From Sarid it turned east, toward the sunrise, to the border of Chisloth-tabor, went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.

13From there it passed along eastward, toward the sunrise, to Gath-hepher and Eth-kazin, went out to Rimmon, and bent toward Neah.

14Then the border went around it on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah-el.

15It included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve towns with their villages.

16This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun by their clans, these towns with their villages.

17The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar by their clans.

18Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

19Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,

20Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,

21Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez.

22The border touched Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen towns with their villages.

23This is the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar by their clans, the towns with their villages.

24The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher by their clans.

25Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

26Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath.

27Then it turned east, toward the sunrise, to Beth-dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, at Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out on the north to Cabul,

28Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Great Sidon.

29Then the border turned to Ramah and to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the border turned to Hosah and ended at the sea, in the region of Achzib.

30It also included Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two towns with their villages.

31This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher by their clans, these towns with their villages.

32The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali by their clans.

33Their border ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, past Adami-nekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.

34Then the border turned west to Aznoth-tabor and went out from there to Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south and Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

35The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

36Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

37Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

38Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh: nineteen towns with their villages.

39This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali by their clans, the towns with their villages.

40The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan by their clans.

41The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

42Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

43Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

44Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

45Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon,

46Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the territory opposite Joppa.

47When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem. They captured it, struck it down with the sword, took possession of it, and settled in it, and they renamed Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.

48This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan by their clans, these towns with their villages.

49When they had finished distributing the land as an inheritance by its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them.

50At Yahweh’s command they gave him the town he asked for, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. He built up the town and settled in it.

51These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral houses of the tribes of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before Yahweh, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.