Joshua 14

Division of the Land West of the Jordan

14Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance^e in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar^f the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel^g allotted^h to them.^{i 2}Their inheritances were assigned by lot^j to the nine and a half tribes,^k as the Lord had commanded through Moses. ³Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan^l but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,^{m 4}for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.ⁿ The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^{o 5}So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.^p

Allotment for Caleb

⁶Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal,^q and Caleb son of Jephunneh^r the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God^s at Kadesh Barnea^t about you and me.^{u 7}I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea^v to explore the land.^w And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,^{x 8}but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear.^y I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.^{z 9}So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance^a and that of your children^b forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’^a

¹⁰“Now then, just as the Lord promised,^c he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved^d about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!^{e 11}I am still as strong^f today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous^g to go out to battle now as I was then. ¹²Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^h You yourself heard then that the Anakitesⁱ were there and their cities were large and fortified,^j but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

¹³Then Joshua blessed^k Caleb son of Jephunneh^l and gave him Hebron^m as his inheritance.^{n 14}So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.^{o 15}(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba^p after Arba,^q who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)

Then the land had rest^r from war.