Joshua 18:11 Cross References - NSB

¹¹ The lot for the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the boundary of their lot came between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

¹ »Jehovah said to me: ‘Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones. Come up to me on the mountain, and build an ark of wood for yourself. ² »‘I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you shattered. You must place them in the Ark.’ ³ »I made an Ark out of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then I took the two tablets in my hands and went up on the mountain. ⁴ »He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing. It was the Ten Commandments (Ten Words) that Jehovah proclaimed to you on the mountain. It was from the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly. Jehovah gave them to me. ⁵ »Then I came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the Ark I had made. They are there just as Jehovah commanded me. ⁶ The sons of Israel set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died. He was buried there. Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place. ⁷ From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water. ⁸ Jehovah then set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the covenant of Jehovah. They were to stand before Jehovah to serve and pronounce blessings in his name until this day. ⁹ Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers. Jehovah is his inheritance; just as Jehovah your God spoke to him. ¹⁰ »I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. Jehovah listened to me this time also. Jehovah was not willing to destroy you. ¹¹ »‘Jehovah said to me: ‘Arise and proceed on your journey ahead of the people. That way they may go in and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.’ ¹² »Now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God require from you? You are to respect Jehovah your God. Walk in all his ways and love him! Serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. ¹³ »Obey Jehovah’s commandments and his statutes I am commanding you today for your good! ¹⁴ »Behold, heaven and the highest heavens belong to Jehovah your God, even the earth and all that is in it. ¹⁵ »Yet Jehovah set his affection on your fathers. He loved them. He chose you their descendants above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶ »Circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck. (Circumcise: Cut short the foreskin.) (Remove hardness of the heart.) ¹⁷ »Jehovah your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords! He is the great, the powerful, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe. ¹⁸ »He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ »Love those who are aliens. For you were also aliens in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ »Respect Jehovah your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. ²¹ »He is your praise! He is your God! He performed for you those great and awesome things you saw with your own eyes. ²² »Your fathers traveled to Egypt, seventy persons in all. Now Jehovah your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the universe (physical heavens).

¹² »If you hear in one of the cities Jehovah has given you, anyone saying that

¹ This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families: The border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the farthest part of the south coast. ² The shore of the salt sea was their south border, from the bay that looks southward: ³ From there it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and went around to Karka: ⁴ From there it passed toward Azmon and went out to the river of Egypt and ended at the south coast at the sea. ⁵ The east border was the salt sea to the end of Jordan. Their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan: ⁶ Their border continued to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah. The border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: ⁷ The border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. Then the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel: ⁸ The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the Valley of the Giants northward:

¹ The lot was for the children of Joseph. It fell from the Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel. ² It goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth, ³ It goes down westward to the coast of Japhleti, to the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: ending at the sea. ⁴ So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. ⁵ The border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper; ⁶ The border went toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; ⁷ It went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. ⁸ The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and from there to the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. ⁹ The separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ¹⁰ They did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and have become forced laborers.