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Joshua Chapter 18

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Joshua

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In this chapter the Israelites are told to divide the land among their tribes according to the boundaries set by Moses. The tribes are assigned specific portions of the Promised Land, and the people are instructed to keep the covenant and not take any of the land that belongs to another tribe.

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(1) And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
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Joshua 19:51Joshua 21:2Joshua 22:9Judges 18:31I Samuel 1:3I Samuel 1:24I Samuel 4:3I Samuel 4:4I Kings 2:27I Kings 14:2I Kings 14:4Psalms 78:66

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Numbers 3:7Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 9:15

(2) And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
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Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Numbers 33:54Numbers 34:14Numbers 34:15Joshua 18:7

(3) And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
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Judges 18:9Proverbs 2:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 2:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 10:4Proverbs 13:4Proverbs 15:19Ecclesiastes 9:10Zephaniah 3:16Matthew 20:6

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Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19

(4) Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
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Joshua 18:3Joshua 3:12Joshua 4:2Numbers 1:4Numbers 13:2Joshua 18:6Joshua 18:9

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Numbers 36:4Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:7Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:8

(5) And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
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Joshua 15:1Joshua 15:2Joshua 15:3Joshua 15:4Joshua 15:5Joshua 15:6Joshua 15:7Joshua 15:8Joshua 15:9Joshua 15:10Joshua 15:11Joshua 15:12

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John 15:4Numbers 34:3Joshua 18:19Ezekiel 46:9John 15:7John 15:10

(6) Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
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Joshua 18:8Joshua 18:10Joshua 14:2Numbers 26:54Numbers 26:55Numbers 33:54Numbers 34:13Psalms 105:11Proverbs 16:33Proverbs 18:18Acts 13:19

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Joshua 18:8Isaiah 22:16

(7) But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
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Joshua 13:14Joshua 13:33Numbers 18:20Numbers 18:23Deuteronomy 10:9Deuteronomy 18:1Deuteronomy 18:2Joshua 13:8Joshua 13:9Joshua 13:10Joshua 13:11Joshua 13:12

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Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:4Numbers 36:3Joshua 14:3Joshua 13:29Numbers 33:54

(8) And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
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Genesis 13:17Joshua 18:6Joshua 18:10Joshua 7:16Joshua 7:17Joshua 7:18Joshua 13:7Joshua 14:1Joshua 14:2Joshua 15:1I Samuel 14:41Acts 1:24

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(9) And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
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Acts 13:19

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I Samuel 9:4Joshua 5:15I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19Joshua 4:10Judges 11:29

(10) And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
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Joshua 18:6Joshua 18:8Proverbs 18:18Ezekiel 47:22Ezekiel 48:29Matthew 27:35Acts 13:19Psalms 16:5Psalms 16:6Psalms 47:4Psalms 61:5John 17:2

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Joshua 11:23Joshua 12:7Joshua 19:51Joshua 18:8Deuteronomy 31:14Joshua 4:8

(11) And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
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Joshua 15:1Joshua 15:2Joshua 15:3Joshua 15:4Joshua 15:5Joshua 15:6Joshua 15:7Joshua 15:8Joshua 16:1Joshua 16:2Joshua 16:3Joshua 16:4

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(12) And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
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Joshua 2:1Joshua 3:16Joshua 6:1Joshua 16:1Joshua 7:2Hosea 4:15Hosea 5:8Hosea 10:5

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(13) And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
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Joshua 16:2Genesis 28:19Judges 1:22Judges 1:23Judges 1:24Judges 1:25Judges 1:26Joshua 10:11Joshua 16:3Joshua 21:22

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(14) And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
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Joshua 15:9Joshua 15:60I Samuel 7:1I Samuel 7:2II Samuel 6:2I Chronicles 13:5I Chronicles 13:6

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(15) And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
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(16) And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
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Joshua 15:8II Kings 23:10II Chronicles 28:3II Chronicles 33:6Isaiah 30:33Jeremiah 7:31Jeremiah 7:32Jeremiah 19:2Jeremiah 19:6Jeremiah 19:11Jeremiah 32:35I Chronicles 14:9

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(17) And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
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Joshua 15:6

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(18) And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
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Joshua 15:6Joshua 15:61

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(19) And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
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Joshua 15:2Isaiah 11:15Joshua 3:16Joshua 12:3Genesis 14:3Genesis 19:25Numbers 34:3Deuteronomy 3:17

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(20) And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
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(21) Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
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Joshua 18:12Joshua 2:1Joshua 6:1Luke 10:30Luke 19:1Joshua 18:19Joshua 15:6

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(22) And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
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Joshua 18:18Joshua 15:6Genesis 10:18II Chronicles 13:4I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:30I Kings 12:31I Kings 12:32

(23) And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
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I Samuel 13:17

(24) And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
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Joshua 21:17Ezra 2:26Nehemiah 7:30

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(25) Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
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Joshua 9:17Joshua 10:2I Kings 3:4I Kings 3:5I Kings 9:2Isaiah 28:21I Samuel 1:1Joshua 7:17Joshua 15:34Jeremiah 31:15Matthew 27:57

(26) And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
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Judges 10:17Joshua 9:17Ezra 2:25

(27) And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
(28) And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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II Samuel 21:14Joshua 18:16Joshua 15:8Joshua 15:63II Samuel 5:8Judges 19:12Judges 19:13Judges 19:14Judges 19:15Judges 20:4Judges 20:5I Samuel 10:26

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