Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 When Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, specifically, that Joshua had seized Ai, and had overthrown it, (for just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so did he do to Ai and its king,) and that the Gibeonites had fled over to Israel, and were now their confederates, […]

1 And when Jabin, the king of Hazor, had heard these things, he sent to Jobab, the king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 also to the kings of the north, who were living in the mountains, and in the plains opposite the southern region of […]

1 These are the kings whom the sons of Israel struck down, and whose land they possessed beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon as far as mount Hermon, with the entire eastern region that looks out toward the wilderness: 2 Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived […]

1 Joshua was old and advanced in age, and the Lord said to him: “You have grown old, and are aged, and a very wide land remains, which has not yet been divided by lot, 2 specifically, all of Galilee, Philistia, and all of Geshur; 3 from the muddy river, which irrigates Egypt, as far […]

1 This is what the sons of Israel possessed in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the leaders of the families, by the tribes of Israel, gave to them, 2 dividing all by lot, just as the Lord had instructed by the hand of Moses, to […]

1 And so, the lot of the sons of Judah, by their families, was this: from the border of Edom, to the desert of Sin toward the south, and even to the furthest part of the southern region. 2 Its beginning was from the summit of the very salty sea, and from its bay, which […]

1 Similarly, the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan, opposite Jericho and its waters, to the east, to the wilderness that ascends from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel. 2 And it goes out from Bethel to Luz. And it crosses the border of Archi to Ataroth. 3 And it descends […]

1 Now this lot fell to the tribe of Manasseh, since he is the firstborn of Joseph: to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, who was a fighting man, and he had as a possession Gilead and Bashan; 2 and to the rest of the sons of Manasseh, according to their families: […]

1 And all the sons of Israel gathered together at Shiloh, and there they stationed the Tabernacle of the Testimony. And the land was subjected to them. 2 But there remained seven tribes of the sons of Israel which had not yet received their possessions. 3 And Joshua said to them: “For how long will […]

1 And the second lot went out, for the sons of Simeon by their families. And their inheritance was, 2 in the midst of the possession of the sons of Judah: Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, 3 and Hazar-shual, Balah, and Ezem, 4 and Eltolad, Bethul, and Hormah, 5 and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, […]