King James Version
18 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.
2 And there remained among the children of Israel
seven tribes,
which had not yet received their inheritance.
Considering there were 12 tribes of Israel, what boundaries were given Benjamin?
First, a backgrounder:
Joshua 18:3-4
King James Version
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?
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.
Joshua 18:5-6
King James Version
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.
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.
Joshua 18:7
King James Version
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.
Joshua 18:8-9
King James Version
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.
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.
The casting of lots Joshua does before the LORD:
Joshua 18:10
King James Version
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.
This applies to Benjamin:
Joshua 18:11-20
King James Version
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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,
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,
18 And passed along toward the side
over against Arabah northward,
and went down unto Arabah:
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.
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.
The next post will tell us of the CITIES of BENJAMIN.
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