Joshua 19:17-51

Allotment for Issachar

17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar according to its clans.
18 Their territory included: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,
19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
21 Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah and Beth Pazzez.
22 The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen towns and their villages.
23 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its clans.

Allotment for Asher

24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans.
25 Their territory included: Helkath, Hali, Beten, Akshaph,
26 Allammelek, Amad and Mishal. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath.
27 It then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, passing Kabul on the left.
28 It went to Abdon,[a] Rehob, Hammon and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.
29 The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib,
30 Ummah, Aphek and Rehob. There were twenty-two towns and their villages.
31 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to its clans.

Allotment for Naphtali

32 The sixth lot came out for Naphtali according to its clans:
33 Their boundary went from Heleph and the large tree in Zaanannim, passing Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum and ending at the Jordan.
34 The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan[b] on the east.
35 The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.
39 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.

Allotment for Dan

40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans.
41 The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
46 Me Jarkon and Rakkon, with the area facing Joppa.
47 (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
48 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.

Allotment for Joshua

49 When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,
50 as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah[c] in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.
51 These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.

Joshua 19:17-51 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 19

In this chapter an account is given of the lots of the six remaining tribes, and the cities in them, as of Simeon, whose cities were chiefly within the tribe of Judah, Jos 19:1-9; of Zebulun, its border and cities, Jos 19:10-16; of Issachar, its border and cities, Jos 19:17-23; of Asher, its border and cities, Jos 19:24-31; of Naphtali, its border and cities, Jos 19:32-39; of Dan, its border and titles, Jos 19:40-48; and lastly of a gift of inheritance to Joshua, Jos 19:49-51.

Cross References 58

  • 1. S Genesis 30:18
  • 2. S Joshua 15:56
  • 3. 1 Samuel 28:4; 1 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 4:8
  • 4. Joshua 21:28
  • 5. S Joshua 15:34
  • 6. Judges 4:6,12; Judges 8:18; Psalms 89:12; Jeremiah 46:18
  • 7. S Joshua 15:10
  • 8. Joshua 17:10
  • 9. Genesis 49:15; Ezekiel 48:25
  • 10. S Joshua 17:7
  • 11. S Joshua 11:1
  • 12. Joshua 21:30
  • 13. S Joshua 12:22; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 2:25
  • 14. Joshua 15:41
  • 15. S ver 10
  • 16. ver 14
  • 17. 1 Kings 9:13
  • 18. Joshua 21:30; 1 Chronicles 6:74
  • 19. ver 30; Numbers 13:21; Joshua 21:31; Judges 1:31
  • 20. 1 Chronicles 6:76
  • 21. S Joshua 16:8
  • 22. S Genesis 10:19; Joshua 11:8
  • 23. Joshua 18:25
  • 24. 2 Samuel 5:11; 2 Samuel 24:7; Ezra 3:7; Psalms 45:12; Isaiah 23:1; Jeremiah 25:22; Ezekiel 26:2
  • 25. Judges 5:17
  • 26. S Joshua 15:44; Judges 1:31
  • 27. S Joshua 12:18
  • 28. S ver 28
  • 29. S Genesis 30:13; S Joshua 17:7; Ezekiel 48:2
  • 30. Judges 4:11
  • 31. Joshua 15:11
  • 32. 1 Chronicles 6:75
  • 33. S ver 10
  • 34. 1 Chronicles 2:55
  • 35. S Joshua 11:2
  • 36. Joshua 18:25
  • 37. S Joshua 11:1
  • 38. S Joshua 12:22
  • 39. S Numbers 21:33
  • 40. Judges 1:33
  • 41. S Joshua 15:10
  • 42. Deuteronomy 33:23; Ezekiel 48:3
  • 43. S Joshua 15:33
  • 44. S Joshua 10:12; Judges 1:35
  • 45. S Genesis 38:12
  • 46. S Joshua 13:3
  • 47. Joshua 21:23; 1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:15
  • 48. 1 Kings 9:18; 2 Chronicles 8:6
  • 49. Joshua 21:24; 1 Chronicles 6:69
  • 50. 2 Chronicles 2:16; Ezra 3:7; John 1:3; Acts 9:36
  • 51. Judges 18:1
  • 52. Judges 18:7,14
  • 53. S Deuteronomy 3:14
  • 54. Judges 18:27,29
  • 55. S Genesis 30:6
  • 56. Joshua 24:30; Judges 2:9
  • 57. Joshua 23:4
  • 58. S Joshua 14:1; S Joshua 18:10; Acts 13:19

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also 21:30); most Hebrew manuscripts "Ebron"
  • [b]. Septuagint; Hebrew "west, and Judah, the Jordan,"
  • [c]. Also known as "Timnath Heres" (see Judges 2:9)
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