¹tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”
sn On the tent of meeting see Exod 33:7-11.
²tn Heb “and the land was subdued before them.”
³tn Heb “there were left among the sons of Israel who had not divided up their inheritance seven tribes.”
⁴tn Heb “How long are you putting off entering and possessing.”
⁵tn Or “fathers.”
⁶tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”
⁷tn Heb “portions.”
⁸tn Heb “stand.”
⁹tn Heb “the house.”
¹⁰tn Or “the priesthood of the Lord.”
¹¹tn Or “inheritance.”
¹²tn Heb “went and passed through.”
¹³tn Heb “and the lot came up for the tribe of the sons of Benjamin.”
¹⁴tn Heb “and the territory of their allotment went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.”
¹⁵map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
¹⁶map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
¹⁷tn Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.
¹⁸tn Or “side.”
¹⁹tn Or “ascent.”
²⁰sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea.
²¹tn Heb “to the tongue of the Salt Sea to the north, to the end of the Jordan to the south.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity (also in the following verse).
²²tn Heb “This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by its borders round about, by their clans.”
²³tn Heb “the sons,” here referring to the tribe.
²⁴map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
²⁵map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
²⁶tn The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
²⁷map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
²⁸tn The structure of this list presents problems. In v. 28 no conjunction appears before “Haeleph” or “Kiriath” in the Hebrew text. This suggests they should be compounded with the preceding names, yielding “Zelah Haeleph” and “Gibeah Kiriath” respectively. This results in a list of only twelve cities, however, while the summary statement (v. 28) gives the number fourteen. One should note, however, that the city lists in chap. 15 do not consistently use the conjunction before the name of each city. See also Josh 19:7, where no conjunction appears before “Rimmon,” but the summary assumes that Ain and Rimmon are distinct.
²⁹tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin.”