King James Version · Entering the land
Joshua 15
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This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of of southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: And it went out to the south side to Maaleh–acrabbim, and passed along to , and ascended up on the south side unto , and passed along to Hezron, and went up to , and fetched a compass to Karkaa: From thence it passed toward , and went out unto the river of ; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan: And the border went up to Beth–hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth–arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of : And the border went up toward from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward , that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En–shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at : And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the ; the same is : and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward: And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount ; and the border was drawn to , which is Kirjath–jearim: And the border compassed from westward unto mount , and passed along unto the side of mount , which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to , and passed on to : And the border went out unto the side of northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount , and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families. And unto the son of he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the of to , even the city of of , which city is . And drove thence the three sons of , Sheshai, and , and Talmai, the children of . And he went up thence to the inhabitants of : and the name of before was Kirjath–sepher. And said, He that smiteth Kirjath–sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give my daughter to wife. And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of , took it: and he gave him his daughter to wife. And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her a field: and she lighted off her ass; and said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, Give me a ; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs. This is the of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of southward were Kabzeel, and , and Jagur, 22And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, And , and , and Ithnan, , and Telem, and Bealoth, 25And , Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is , Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, And Hazar–gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth–palet, And Hazar–shual, and Beer–sheba, and Bizjothjah, , and Iim, and Azem, And Eltolad, and Chesil, and , And , and , and Sansannah, And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and : all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: And in the valley, , and Zoreah, and , And , and En–gannim, Tappuah, and , , and , , and , And Sharaim, and , and , and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: 37Zenan, and Hadashah, and –gad, And Dilean, and , and Joktheel, , and Bozkath, and , 40And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, And Gederoth, Beth–dagon, and , and ; sixteen cities with their villages: , and Ether, and Ashan, 43And Jiphtah, and , and , And , and , and ; nine cities with their villages: , with her towns and her villages: From even unto the sea, all that lay near , with their villages: with her towns and her villages, with her towns and her villages, unto the river of , and the great sea, and the border thereof: And in the mountains, Shamir, and , and , And Dannah, and Kirjath–sannah, which is , 50And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and , And , and , and ; eleven cities with their villages: , and , and Eshean, 53And Janum, and , and , And , and Kirjath–arba, which is , and ; nine cities with their villages: , , and , and , 56And , and Jokdeam, and , , , and ; ten cities with their villages: Halhul, , and Gedor, 59And Maarath, and Beth–anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: Kirjath–baal, which is Kirjath–jearim, and ; two cities with their villages: In , Beth–arabah, Middin, and Secacah, And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages. As for the the inhabitants of , the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the with the children of Judah at unto this day.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Entering the land, 1250 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel crossing into Canaan and contending with fortified city-states, each with its own king, in a land Egypt had recently dominated and was now losing its grip on.
- The collapse
- The whole eastern Mediterranean is coming apart. Within about fifty years the Hittite empire falls, its capital burns, the Mycenaean palaces are destroyed, Ugarit is wiped out mid-correspondence, and Egypt is fighting for its life against seaborne invaders. Nobody fully knows why. Drought, earthquake, migration, and the failure of interlocking trade are all in the explanation.
- Egypt
- Still strong enough to record a victory over a people called Israel on a stone monument around 1207 BC, the earliest mention of the name outside the Bible. But Egyptian control of Canaan is slipping, and within a generation it is gone.
- Canaan
- Not a country but dozens of walled towns, each with its own king, its own god, and its own quarrel with the next valley. This is why the book of Joshua reads as a list of kings rather than a war with a nation.
- Further afield
- Iron is beginning to replace bronze across the region, partly because the tin trade that made bronze possible has broken down. The Olmec are building San Lorenzo. The Zhou are about to overthrow the Shang in China.