Joshua 14
The Inheritance West of the Jordan
These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which aEleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. 2 Their inheritance was aby lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. 3 aFor Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, bbut to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4 For athe people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. 5 The people of Israel did aas the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.
Caleb’s Request and Inheritance
6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the aKenizzite said to him, “You know bwhat the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord asent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But amy brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, a‘Surely the land bon which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ajust as he said, these bforty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day beighty-five years old. 11 aI am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and bfor going and coming. 12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the aAnakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”
13 Then Joshua ablessed him, and he gave bHebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, abecause he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 aNow the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) bAnd the land had rest from war.
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