Joshua 18:25 (KJV)

What does Joshua 18:25 mean?

Joshua 18:25 lists three towns—Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth—as part of the territory assigned to the tribe of Benjamin. This verse is part of a detailed description of the land divisions among the tribes of Israel after they entered Canaan.

In context, Joshua is recording the boundaries and cities given to Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes. The list helps define the tribe’s inheritance and shows the care taken to document each group’s allotted land. These specific towns would have been familiar landmarks for the original audience, marking out the area Benjamin’s descendants would call home.

Where else these words appear

“Beeroth” Hebrew H881 · used in 5 verses

Joshua 9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
2 Samuel 4:2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin:(for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
Ezra 2:25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

“Gibeon” Hebrew H1391 · used in 35 verses

Joshua 9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua 21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles 9:35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:

“Ramah” Hebrew H7414 · used in 35 verses

Joshua 19:8 And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
1 Samuel 19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
2 Kings 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.