World English Bible · Entering the land
Joshua 19
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The second lot came out for , even for the tribe of the children of according to their families. Their was in the middle of the of the children of Judah. They had for their (or ), Moladah, Hazar , Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, , , Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages; Ain, , Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages; and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, of the South. This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families. Out of the part of the children of Judah was the of the children of ; for the of the children of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of had in the middle of their . The third lot came up for the children of according to their families. The border of their was to Sarid. Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before . It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth . It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia. From there it passed along eastward to , to Ethkazin; and it went out at which stretches to Neah. 14The border turned around it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El; Kattath, Nahalal, , Idalah, and : twelve cities with their villages. 16This is the of the children of according to their families, these cities with their villages. 17The fourth lot came out for , even for the children of according to their families. Their border was to , Chesulloth, , 19Hapharaim, Shion, , 20Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez. The border reached to , Shahazumah, and . Their border ended at : sixteen cities with their villages. 23This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families, the cities with their villages. The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, , Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to westward, and to Shihorlibnath. It turned toward the sunrise to Beth , and reached to , and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to on the left hand, and Ebron, , Hammon, and , even to great . The border turned to , to the fortified city of ; and the border turned to . It ended at the sea by the region of ; Ummah also, and , and : twenty-two cities with their villages. This is the of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages. 32The sixth lot came out for the children of , even for the children of according to their families. Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at . The border turned westward to Aznoth , and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at toward the sunrise. The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, , Adamah, , , , , En , 38Iron, El, Horem, , and ; nineteen cities with their villages. 39This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families, the cities with their villages. 40The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. The border of their was , , Irshemesh, Shaalabbin, , Ithlah, , , , Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Bene Berak, , Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite . The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of , and it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather. 48This is the of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. So they finished distributing the land for by its borders. The gave an to the son of among them. According to , they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of ; and he built the city, and lived there. These are the inheritances, which the priest, the son of , and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the , distributed for by lot in before , at the door of the . So they finished dividing the land.
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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.