Joshua 18:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Benjamin was the first tribe chosen to receive land. The region for its clans lay between the Judah tribe on the south and the Joseph tribes on the north.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:9

and made him king of Israel, including the areas of Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin.

Ezekiel 48:23

South of this special section will be the land that belongs to the rest of Israel's tribes. Each tribe will receive a section of land that runs from the eastern border of Israel west to the Mediterranean Sea. The tribes will receive their share of land in the following order, from north to south: Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, and Gad.

Deuteronomy 13:12

After the LORD your God gives you towns to live in, you may hear a rumour about one of the towns.

Joshua 18:10

Joshua found out from the LORD how to divide the land, and he told the tribes what the LORD had decided.

Joshua 18:12

Benjamin's northern border started at the River Jordan and went up the ridge north of Jericho, then on west into the hill country as far as the Beth-Aven Desert.