Dual Panel1This is the territory allotted to the tribe of the sons of Judah family by family. It started from the Edomite frontier at the wilderness of Zin and ran as far as the Negeb at its southern end,
2and it had a common border with the Negeb at the end of the Dead Sea, where an inlet of water bends towards the Negeb.
3It continued from the south by the ascent of Akrabbim, passed by Zin, went up from the south of Kadesh-barnea, passed by Hezron, went on to Addar, and turned round to Karka.
4It then passed along to Azmon, reached the wadi of Egypt, and its limit was the sea. This was their southern boundary.
5The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan and the adjacent land northwards from the inlet of the sea, at the mouth of the Jordan.
6The boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah; it passes north of Beth-arabah and thence to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben,
7thence to Debir from the vale of Achor, and then turns north to the districts in front of the ascent of Adummim south of the wadi. The boundary then passes the waters of En-shemesh and the limit there is Enrogel.
8It then goes up by the valley of Ben-hinnom to the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is Jerusalem). Thence it goes up to the top of the hill which faces the valley of Hinnom on the west; this is at the northern end of the vale of Rephaim.
9The boundary then bends round from the top of the hill to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and runs round to the cities of Mount Ephron and to Baalah, that is Kiriath-jearim.
10It then continues westwards from Baalah to Mount Seir, passes on to the north side of the slope of Mount Jearim, that is Kesalon, down to Beth-shemesh and on to Timnah.
11The boundary then goes north to the slope of Ekron, bends round to Shikkeron, crosses to Mount Baalah, and reaches Jebneel; its limit is the sea.
12The western boundary is the Great Sea and the land adjacent. This is the whole circuit of the boundary of the tribe of Judah family by family.
13Caleb son of Jephunneh received his share of the land within the tribe of Judah as the LORD had told Joshua. It was Kiriath-arba, that is Hebron; this Arba was the ancestor of the Anakim.
14Caleb drove out the three Anakim, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.
15From there he attacked the inhabitants of Debir, formerly called Kiriath-sepher.
16Caleb announced that whoever should attack and capture Kiriath-sepher would receive his daughter Achsah in marriage.
17It was captured by Othniel, son of Caleb's brother Kenaz, and Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah.
18When she became his wife, he induced her to ask her father for a piece of land. She dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb asked her, “What do you want?”
19She replied, “Grant me this favour: you have put me in this arid Negeb; you must give me pools of water as well.” So Caleb gave her the upper pool and the lower pool.
20This is the holding of the tribe of the sons of Judah family by family.
21These are the towns belonging to the tribe of Judah, the full count. By the Edomite frontier in the Negeb: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
22Kinah, Dimonah, Ararah,
23Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
24Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
25Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron,
26Amam, Shema, Moladah,
27Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,
28Hazar-shual, Beersheba and its villages,
29Baalah, Iyim, Ezem,
30Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah,
31Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine towns with their hamlets.
33In the Shephelah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
34Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
35Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
36Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, namely both parts of Gederah: fourteen towns with their hamlets.
37Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,
38Dilan, Mizpeh, Joktheel,
39Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
40Cabbon, Lahmas, Kithlish,
41Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen towns with their hamlets.
42Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
43Jiphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine towns with their hamlets.
45Ekron, with its villages and hamlets,
46and from Ekron westwards, all the towns near Ashdod and their hamlets.
47Ashdod with its villages and hamlets, Gaza with its villages and hamlets as far as the wadi of Egypt and the Great Sea and the land adjacent.
48In the hill-country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
49Dannah, Kiriath-sannah, that is Debir,
50Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
51Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven towns in all with their hamlets.
52Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
53Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphek,
54Humtah, Kiriath-arba, that is Hebron, and Zior: nine towns in all with their hamlets.
55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
56Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten towns in all with their hamlets.
58Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
59Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six towns in all with their hamlets. Tekoa, Ephrathah, that is Bethlehem, Peor, Etam, Culom, Tatam, Sores, Carem, Gallim, Baither, and Manach: eleven towns in all with their hamlets.
60Kiriath-baal, that is Kiriath-jearim, and Rabbah: two towns with their hamlets.
61In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
62Nibshan, Irmelach, and En-gedi: six towns with their hamlets.
63At Jerusalem, the men of Judah failed to drive out the Jebusites living there, and to this day Jebusites and men of Judah live together in Jerusalem.