Joshua Chapter 14

Joshua Chapter 14
1 These also are the places which the
children of Israel inherited in the land of
Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun and the chief
fathers of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed to them, 2 By the lot
of their inheritance, as the Lord had
commanded by the hand of Moses, to
give to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.
3 For Moses had given inheritance unto
two tribes and an half tribe, beyond
Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave
none inheritance among them. 4 For the
children of Joseph were two tribes,
Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they
gave no part unto the Levites in the land,
save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs
of the same for their beasts and their
substance. 5 As the Lord had
commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel did when they divided the land.
6 Then the children of Judah came unto
Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him,
Thou knowest what the Lord said unto
Moses the man of God, concerning me
and thee in Kadesh-barnea. 7 Forty year
old was I, when Moses the servant of the
Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to
espy the land, and I brought him word
again, as I thought in mine heart.
8 But my brethren that went up with me,
discouraged the heart of the people: yet I
followed still the Lord my God.
9 Wherefore Moses swear the same day,
saying, Certainly the land whereon thy
feet have trodden, shall be thine
inheritance, and thy children’s forever,
because thou hast followed constantly
the Lord my God.
10 Therefore behold now, the Lord hath
kept me alive, as he promised: this is the
forty and fifth year since the Lord spake
this thing unto Moses, while the children
of Israel wandered in the wilderness:
and now lo, I am this day four score and
five year old:
11 And yet am as strong at this time, as I
was when Moses sent me: as strong as I
was then, so strong am I now, either for
war, or for government. 12 Now
therefore give me this mountain whereof
the Lord spake in that day (for thou
heardest in that day, how the Anakims
were there, and the cities great and
walled) if so be the Lord will be with
me, that I may drive them out, as the
Lord said.
13 Then Joshua blessed him, and gave
unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh, Hebron
for an inheritance.
14 Hebron therefore became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite, unto this day:
because he followed constantly the Lord
God of Israel.
15 And the name of Hebron was before
time, Kirjath-arba: which Arba was a
great man among the Anakims: thus the
land ceased from war.