King James Version · Entering the land
Joshua 19
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And the second lot came forth to , even for the tribe of the children of according to their families: and their was within the of the children of Judah. And they had in their Beer–sheba, , and Moladah, And Hazar–shual, and Balah, and Azem, And Eltolad, and Bethul, and , And , and Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susah, And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath–beer, Ramath of the south. This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families. Out of the of the children of Judah was the of the children of : for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of had their within the of them. And the third lot came up for the children of according to their families: and the border of their was unto Sarid: And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before ; And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah–hepher, to Ittah–kazin, and goeth out to Remmon–methoar to Neah; 14And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah–el: And Kattath, and Nahallal, and , and Idalah, and Beth–lehem: twelve cities with their villages. 16This is the of the children of according to their families, these cities with their villages. 17And the fourth lot came out to , for the children of according to their families. And their border was toward , and Chesulloth, and , 19And Hapharaim, and Shion, and , 20And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez, And Remeth, and En–gannim, and En–haddah, and Beth–pazzez; And the coast reacheth to , and Shahazimah, and ; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. 23This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families, the cities and their villages. And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and , And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to westward, and to –libnath; And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth–dagon, and reacheth to , and to the valley of Jiphthah–el toward the north side of Beth–emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to on the left hand, And , and , and Hammon, and , even unto great Zidon; And then the coast turneth to , and to the strong city ; and the coast turneth to ; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to : Ummah also, and , and : twenty and 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 to the children of , even for the children of according to their families. And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and , And Adamah, and , and , And , and , and En–hazor, 38And Iron, and –el, Horem, and , and ; nineteen cities with their villages. 39This is the of the tribe of the children of according to their families, the cities and their villages. 40And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. And the coast of their was , and , and Ir–shemesh, And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, And , and Thimnathah, and , And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, And Jehud, and Bene–berak, and –rimmon, And Me–jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho. And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of , and it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their . 48This is the of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. When they had made an end of dividing the land for by their coasts, the gave an to the son of among them: According to the word of they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath–serah in mount : and he built the city, and dwelt therein. These are the inheritances, which the priest, and the son of , and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the , divided for an by lot in before , at the door of the of . So they made an end of dividing the country.
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.