Joshua 19:48-51

Contemporary English Version

^47-48 (A) Its clans received this land and these towns with their surrounding villages.

Later, when enemies^[a] forced them to leave their tribal land, they went to the town of Leshem. They attacked the town, captured it, and killed the people who lived there. Then they settled there themselves and renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

Joshua's Land

^49-51 The Israelites were still gathered in Shiloh in front of the sacred tent,^[b] when Eleazar the priest, Joshua, and the family leaders of Israel finished giving out the land to the tribes. The Lord had told the people to give Joshua whatever town he wanted. So Joshua chose Timnath-Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people gave it to him. Joshua went to Timnath-Serah, rebuilt it, and lived there.