The Book of Joshua



Joshua, Chapter 19


Then the second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.


So they had as their inheritance Beersheba or Sheba and Moladah,


and Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem,

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and Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah,


and Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah,

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and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen, thirteen cities with their villages;

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Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan, four cities with their villages;

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and all the villages which [were] around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This [was] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.


The inheritance of the sons of Simeon [was taken] from the portion of the sons of Judah, for the share of the sons of Judah was too large for them; so the sons of Simeon received [an] inheritance in the midst of Judah's inheritance.

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Now the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.

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Then their border went up to the west and to Maralah, it then touched Dabbesheth, and reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.


Then it turned from Sarid to the east toward the sunrise as far as the border of Chisloth-tabor, and it proceeded to Daberath and up to Japhia.

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And from there it continued eastward toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and it proceeded to Rimmon which stretches to Neah.

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And the border circled around it on the north to Hannathon, and it ended at the valley of Iphtahel.

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[Included] also [were] Kattah and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.


This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.


And their territory was to Jezreel and [included] Chesulloth and Shunem,