The chapter describes the boundaries and cities of Judah's territory. Caleb takes Hebron and offers his daughter to the one who takes Debir; Othniel wins her.
1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families ; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast .
2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea , from the bay that looketh southward :
3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim , and passed along to Zin , and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea , and passed along to Hezron , and went up to Adar , and fetched a compass to Karkaa :
4 From thence it passed toward Azmon , and went out unto the river of Egypt ; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea : this shall be your south coast .
5 And the east border was the salt sea , even unto the end of Jordan . And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan :
6 And the border went up to Bethhogla , and passed along by the north of Betharabah ; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben :
7 And 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 : and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh , and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel :
8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite ; the same is Jerusalem : and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward , which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward :
9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah , and went out to the cities of mount Ephron ; and the border was drawn to Baalah , which is Kirjathjearim :
10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir , and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim , which is Chesalon , on the north side , and went down to Bethshemesh , and passed on to Timnah :
11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward : and the border was drawn to Shicron , and passed along to mount Baalah , and went out unto Jabneel ; and the goings out of the border were at the sea .
12 And the west border was to the great sea , and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families .
13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah , according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua , even the city of Arba the father of Anak , which city is Hebron .
14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak , Sheshai , and Ahiman , and Talmai , the children of Anak .
15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir : and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher .
16 And Caleb said , He that smiteth Kirjathsepher , and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife .
17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz , the brother of Caleb , took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife .
18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field : and she lighted off her ass ; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
19 Who answered , Give me a blessing ; for thou hast given me a south land ; give me also springs of water . And he gave her the upper springs , and the nether springs .
20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families .
21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel , and Eder , and Jagur ,
22 And Kinah , and Dimonah , and Adadah ,
23 And Kedesh , and Hazor , and Ithnan ,
24 Ziph , and Telem , and Bealoth ,
25 And Hazor , Hadattah , and Kerioth , and Hezron , which is Hazor ,
26 Amam , and Shema , and Moladah ,
27 And Hazargaddah , and Heshmon , and Bethpalet ,
28 And Hazarshual , and Beersheba , and Bizjothjah ,
29 Baalah , and Iim , and Azem ,
30 And Eltolad , and Chesil , and Hormah ,
31 And Ziklag , and Madmannah , and Sansannah ,
32 And Lebaoth , and Shilhim , and Ain , and Rimmon : all the cities are twenty and nine , with their villages :
33 And in the valley , Eshtaol , and Zoreah , and Ashnah ,
34 And Zanoah , and Engannim , Tappuah , and Enam ,
35 Jarmuth , and Adullam , Socoh , and Azekah ,
36 And Sharaim , and Adithaim , and Gederah , and Gederothaim ; fourteen cities with their villages :
37 Zenan , and Hadashah , and Migdalgad ,
38 And Dilean , and Mizpeh , and Joktheel ,
39 Lachish , and Bozkath , and Eglon ,
40 And Cabbon , and Lahmam , and Kithlish ,
41 And Gederoth , Bethdagon , and Naamah , and Makkedah ; sixteen cities with their villages :
42 Libnah , and Ether , and Ashan ,
43 And Jiphtah , and Ashnah , and Nezib ,
44 And Keilah , and Achzib , and Mareshah ; nine cities with their villages :
45 Ekron , with her towns and her villages :
46 From Ekron even unto the sea , all that lay near Ashdod , with their villages :
47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages , Gaza with her towns and her villages , unto the river of Egypt , and the great sea , and the border thereof:
48 And in the mountains , Shamir , and Jattir , and Socoh ,
49 And Dannah , and Kirjathsannah , which is Debir ,
50 And Anab , and Eshtemoh , and Anim ,
51 And Goshen , and Holon , and Giloh ; eleven cities with their villages :
52 Arab , and Dumah , and Eshean ,
53 And Janum , and Bethtappuah , and Aphekah ,
54 And Humtah , and Kirjatharba , which is Hebron , and Zior ; nine cities with their villages :
55 Maon , Carmel , and Ziph , and Juttah ,
56 And Jezreel , and Jokdeam , and Zanoah ,
57 Cain , Gibeah , and Timnah ; ten cities with their villages :
58 Halhul , Bethzur , and Gedor ,
59 And Maarath , and Bethanoth , and Eltekon ; six cities with their villages :
60 Kirjathbaal , which is Kirjathjearim , and Rabbah ; two cities with their villages :
61 In the wilderness , Betharabah , Middin , and Secacah ,
62 And Nibshan , and the city of Salt , and Engedi ; six cities with their villages .
63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the children of Judah could not drive them out : but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day .