15:1 Now the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families ①reached the border of Edom, southward to the wilderness of Zin at the extreme south.
▷ ①Lit was to
15:2 Their southern border was from the lower end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that turns to the south.
15:3 Then it proceeded southward to the ascent of Akrabbim and continued to Zin, then went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea and continued to Hezron, and went up to Addar and turned to Karka.
15:4 It continued to Azmon and proceeded to the ①brook of Egypt, and the ②border ended at the sea. This shall be your southern border.
▷ ①Or wadi ②Lit goings out of the border were
15:5 The eastern border was the Salt Sea, as far as the ①mouth of the Jordan. And the border of the north side was from the bay of the sea at the ②mouth of the Jordan.
▷ ①Lit end ②Lit end
15:6 Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and continued on the north of Beth-arabah, and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
15:7 And the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and turned northward toward Gilgal which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south of the valley; and the border continued to the waters of En-shemesh and ①it ended at En-rogel.
▷ ①Lit the goings out of it were
15:8 Then the border went up the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain which is opposite the Valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of Rephaim toward the north.
15:9 And from the top of the mountain the border turned to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, then the border turned to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
15:10 The border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and continued to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and continued through Timnah.
15:11 Then the border proceeded to the side of Ekron northward. And the border turned to Shikkeron and continued to Mount Baalah and proceeded to Jabneel, and the ①border ended at the sea.
▷ ①Lit goings out...were
15:12 The western border was at the Great Sea, even its ①coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families.
▷ ①Lit border
15:13 Now he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah, in accordance with the ①command of the LORD to Joshua, namely, ②Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron).
▷ ①Lit mouth ②I.e., the city of Arba
15:14 And Caleb ①drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
▷ ①Or dispossessed them
15:15 Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir previously was Kiriath-sepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, “The one who ①attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, ②I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.”
▷ ①Lit strikes ②Lit and I
15:17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.
15:18 And it happened that when she came to him, she incited him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
15:19 Then she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the ①Negev, give me springs of water also.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
▷ ①I.e., South country
15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.
15:21 Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel, Eder, and Jagur,
15:22 Kinah, Dimonah, and Adadah,
15:23 Kedesh, Hazor, and Ithnan,
15:24 Ziph, Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
15:26 Amam, Shema, and Moladah,
15:27 Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,
15:28 Hazar-shual, Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
15:29 Baalah, Iim, and Ezem,
15:30 Eltolad, Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 Ziklag, Madmannah, and Sansannah,
15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
15:33 In the lowland: Eshtaol, Zorah, and Ashnah,
15:34 Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
15:36 Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
15:37 Zenan, Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
15:38 Dilean, Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
15:39 Lachish, Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40 Cabbon, Lahmas, and Chitlish,
15:41 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
15:42 Libnah, Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 Iphtah, Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the ①side of Ashdod, with their villages.
▷ ①Lit hand
15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the ①brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its ②coastline.
▷ ①Or wadi ②Lit border
15:48 In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, and Socoh,
15:49 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),
15:50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
15:51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
15:52 Arab, Dumah, and Eshan,
15:53 Janum, Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.
15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, and Juttah,
15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
15:59 Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
15:60 Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.
15:61 In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
15:63 Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not ①drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.
▷ ①Or dispossess them