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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families.

Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel, ^(C1)Eder, and Jagur,

Kinah, Dimonah, and Adadah,

Kedesh, Hazor, and Ithnan,

Ziph, Telem, and Bealoth,

Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),

Amam, Shema, and Moladah,

Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,

Hazar-shual, ^(C1)Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

Baalah, Iim, and Ezem,

Eltolad, Chesil, and Hormah,

^(C1)Ziklag, Madmannah, and Sansannah,

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.

In the lowland: ^(C1)Eshtaol, Zorah, and Ashnah,

Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

Jarmuth, ^(C1)Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

Zenan, Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,

Dilean, Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

^(C1)Lachish, Bozkath, and Eglon,

Cabbon, Lahmas, and Chitlish,

Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

Libnah, Ether, and Ashan,

Iphtah, Ashnah, and Nezib,

Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the ^(F1)side of Ashdod, with their villages.

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as ^(C1)the ^(F1)brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its ^(F2)coastline.

In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, and Socoh,

Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),

Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

Arab, Dumah, and Eshan,

Janum, Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,

Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, and Juttah,

Jezreel, Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,

Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

Now as for the ^(C1)Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not ^(F1)drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.