Now, divide up this land<n id="1" /> among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;p>

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed Moses.<n id="1" />

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.<n id="1" />

Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh&#8217;s territory, along with their towns.<n id="1" />p>

seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.<n id="1" />

The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The third lot belonged to the tribe of Zebulun<n id="1" /> by its clans. The border of their territory<n id="2" /> extended to Sarid.

This was the land assigned to the tribe of Asher<n id="1" /> by its clans, including these cities and their towns.p>

This was the land assigned to the tribe of Dan<n id="1" /> by its clans, including these cities and their towns.p>

They buried him in his allotted territory<n id="1" /> in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Joshua dismissed<n id="1" /> the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory,<n id="2" /> intending to take possession of the land.

The people<n id="1" /> buried him in his allotted land<n id="2" /> in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

After all,<n id="1" /> they are your people and your special possession<n id="2" /> whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.<n id="3" />p>

But Naboth replied to Ahab, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people<n id="1" /> and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.p>

<p class="poetry">This is the portion of the wicked manp> <p class="poetry">allotted by God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the inheritance that evildoers receivep> <p class="poetry">from the Almighty.p>

<p class="poetry">Deliver your people!p> <p class="poetry">Empower<n id="1" /> the nation that belongs to you!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms<n id="3" /> at all times!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">How blessed<n id="1" /> is the nation whose God is the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He picked out for us a special land<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to be a source of pride for<n id="2" /> Jacob,<n id="3" /> whom he loves.<n id="4" /> (Selah)p>