Joshua 14

The Land Divided West of the Jordan

14These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, ^awhich Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them. ²Their inheritance was ^bby lot, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. ^3cFor Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among them. ⁴For ^dthe children of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except ^ecities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their property. ^5fAs the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.

Caleb Inherits Hebron

⁶Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^gKenizzite said to him: “You know ^hthe word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning ⁱyou and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^jsent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. ⁸Nevertheless ^kmy brethren who went up with me made the ¹heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^lfollowed the Lord my God. ⁹So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^m‘Surely the land ⁿwhere your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^oalive, ^pas He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel ²wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. ^11qAs yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both ^rfor going out and for coming in. ¹²Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^sthe Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^tIt may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^uI shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

¹³And Joshua ^vblessed him, ^wand gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. ^14xHebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he ^ywholly followed the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵And ^zthe name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).

^aThen the land had rest from war.