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Joshua 19:48 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. "
Joshua 19:48
Verse in Context
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46 Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.
47 The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.
48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
49 So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
50 According to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
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Joshua 19:1
"The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah."
Joshua 19:2
"They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,"
Joshua 19:3
"Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,"
Joshua 19:4
"Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,"
Joshua 19:5
"Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,"
Joshua 19:6
"Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;"
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