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2-7 Their inheritance included these seventeen cities[a] with their respective villages: Beer-sheba, Sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah, Beth-lebaoth, Sharuhen, En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan. The cities as far south as Baalath-beer (also known as Ramah-in-the-Negeb) were also given to the tribe of Simeon. So the Simeon tribe’s inheritance came from what had earlier been given to Judah, for Judah’s section had been too large for them.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 19:2 these seventeen cities. Totaled from vv. 6 and 7 of the original manuscripts, where subtotals are indicated.

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