Judges 19:10-12
19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left
and traveled as far as
Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).
He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.
19:11 When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late and the servant said to his master, “Come on, let’s stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”
19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”
Joshua 15:63
15:63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.
Joshua 18:11-28
Benjamin’s Tribal Lands
18:11 The first lot belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans. Their allotted territory was between Judah and Joseph.
18:12 Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.
18:13 It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.
18:14 It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe of Judah. This is the western border.
18:15 The southern side started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and extended westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
18:16 The border then descended to the edge of the hill country near the Valley of Ben Hinnom located in the Valley of the Rephaites to the north. It descended through the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south and then down to En Rogel.
18:17 It went northward, extending to En Shemesh and Geliloth opposite the Pass of Adummim, and descended to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.
18:18 It crossed to the slope in front of the Arabah to the north and descended into the Arabah.
18:19 It then crossed to the slope of Beth Hoglah to the north and ended at the northern tip of the Salt Sea at the mouth of the Jordan River. This was the southern border.
18:20 The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.
18:21 These cities belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans: Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
18:22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
18:23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
18:24 Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba – a total of twelve cities and their towns.
18:25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
18:26 Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,
18:27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
18:28 Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath – a total of fourteen cities and their towns. This was the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.
Joshua 18:2
18:2 seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.
Joshua 5:6-9
5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the
Lord, died off.
For the
Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them,
a land rich in
milk and honey.
5:7 He replaced them with their sons,
whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.
5:8 When all the men
had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.
5:9 The
Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away
the disgrace
of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal
even to this day.