Chapter 15
1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward , at the uttermost part of the south .
2 Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea , from the bay that looks southward ;
3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim , and passed along to Zin , and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron , went up to Addar, and turned towards Karka ;
4 and it passed along to Azmon , went out at the brook of Egypt ; and the border ended at the sea . This shall be your south border .
5 The east border was the Salt Sea , even to the end of the Jordan . The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan .
6 The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben .
7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor , and so northward , looking towards Gilgal , that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river . The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
8 The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite ( also called Jerusalem ) southward ; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward , which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward .
9 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 Ephron ; and the border extended to Baalah ( also called Kiriath Jearim);
10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir , and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim ( also called Chesalon ) on the north , and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah ;
11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward ; and the border extended to Shikkeron , and passed along to Mount Baalah , and went out at Jabneel ; and the goings out of the border were at the sea .
12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea . This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families .
13 He gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion amongst the children of Judah , according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua , even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak ( also called Hebron ).
14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak : Sheshai , and Ahiman, and Talmai , the children of Anak .
15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir : now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
16 Caleb said, " He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it , to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife."
17 Othniel the son of Kenaz , the brother of Caleb , took it : and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
18 When she came , she had him ask her father for a field . She got off her donkey , and Caleb said, " What do you want?"
19 She said, " Give me a blessing . 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 .
20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families .
21 The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah towards the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel , Eder , Jagur ,
22 Kinah , Dimonah , Adadah ,
23 Kedesh , Hazor , Ithnan ,
24 Ziph , Telem , Bealoth ,
25 Hazor Hadattah , Kerioth Hezron ( also called Hazor ),
26 Amam, Shema , Moladah ,
27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon , Beth Pelet,
28 Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
29 Baalah , Iim , Ezem ,
30 Eltolad, Chesil , Hormah ,
31 Ziklag , Madmannah , Sansannah ,
32 Lebaoth , Shilhim , Ain , and Rimmon . All the cities are twenty-nine , with their villages .
33 In the lowland , Eshtaol, Zorah , Ashnah,
34 Zanoah , En Gannim, Tappuah , Enam ,
35 Jarmuth , Adullam , Socoh , Azekah ,
36 Shaaraim , Adithaim and Gederah ( or Gederothaim ); fourteen cities with their villages .
37 Zenan , Hadashah , Migdal Gad,
38 Dilean , Mizpah , Joktheel ,
39 Lachish , Bozkath , Eglon ,
40 Cabbon , Lahmam , Chitlish ,
41 Gederoth , Beth Dagon, Naamah , and Makkedah ; sixteen cities with their villages .
42 Libnah , Ether , Ashan ,
43 Iphtah , Ashnah, Nezib ,
44 Keilah , Achzib, and Mareshah ; nine cities with their villages .
45 Ekron , with its towns and its villages ;
46 from Ekron even to the sea , all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages .
47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages ; Gaza , its towns and its villages ; to the brook of Egypt , and the great sea with its coastline .
48 In the hill country , Shamir , Jattir , Socoh ,
49 Dannah , Kiriath Sannah ( which is Debir ),
50 Anab , Eshtemoh, Anim ,
51 Goshen , Holon , and Giloh ; eleven cities with their villages .
52 Arab, Dumah , Eshan,
53 Janim , Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
54 Humtah , Kiriath Arba ( also called Hebron ), and Zior ; nine cities with their villages .
55 Maon , Carmel , Ziph , Jutah,
56 Jezreel , Jokdeam , Zanoah ,
57 Kain , Gibeah , and Timnah ; ten cities with their villages .
58 Halhul , Beth Zur, Gedor ,
59 Maarath , Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages .
60 Kiriath Baal ( also called Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah ; two cities with their villages .
61 In the wilderness , Beth Arabah, Middin , Secacah ,
62 Nibshan , the City of Salt , and En Gedi; six cities with their villages .
63 As for the Jebusites , the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out ; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day .