World English Bible · Entering the land
Joshua 15
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The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of , even to of southward, at the uttermost part of the south. Their south border was from the uttermost part of , from the bay that looks southward; and it went out southward of the ascent of , and passed along to , and went up by the south of , and passed along by Hezron, went up to , and turned toward Karka; and it passed along to , went out at the brook of ; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border. The east border was , even to the end of . The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of . The border went up to Beth , and passed along by the north of Beth ; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of . The border went up to from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward , that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En , and ended at . The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the (also called ) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of northward. The border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount ; and the border extended to (also called ); and the border turned about from westward to Mount , and passed along to the side of Mount (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to , and passed along by ; and the border went out to the side of northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount , and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families. He gave to the son of a among the children of Judah, according to the of to , even , named after of (also called ). drove out the three sons of : Sheshai, and , and Talmai, the children of . He went up against the inhabitants of : now the name of before was Kiriath . said, "He who strikes Kiriath , and takes it, to him I will give my daughter as wife." Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of , took it: and he gave him his daughter as wife. When she came, she had him ask her for a field. She got off her donkey, and said, "What do you want?" She said, "Give me a . Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. This is the of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of in the South were Kabzeel, , Jagur, 22Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, , , Ithnan, , Telem, Bealoth, 25 Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (also called ), Amam, Shema, Moladah, Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, Hazar , , Biziothiah, , Iim, Ezem, Eltolad, Chesil, , , , Sansannah, Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and . All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. In the lowland, , , , , En Gannim, Tappuah, , , , , , , and (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages. 37Zenan, Hadashah, Gad, Dilean, , Joktheel, , Bozkath, , 40Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, Gederoth, Beth , , and ; sixteen cities with their villages. , Ether, Ashan, 43Iphtah, , , , , and ; nine cities with their villages. , with its towns and its villages; from even to the sea, all that were by the side of , with their villages. , its towns and its villages; , its towns and its villages; to the brook of , and the great sea with its coastline. In the hill country, Shamir, , , Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is ), 50Anab, Eshtemoh, , , , and ; eleven cities with their villages. , , Eshan, 53, , , , (also called ), and ; nine cities with their villages. , , , , 56, Jokdeam, , Kain, , and ; ten cities with their villages. Halhul, , Gedor, 59Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages. Kiriath (also called ), and ; two cities with their villages. In , Beth , Middin, Secacah, Nibshan, the City of Salt, and ; six cities with their villages. As for the , the inhabitants of , the children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the live with the children of Judah at to this day.
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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.