Josh. 14
:1
14:1
And these are what the children of Israel received as
ainheritances in the land of Canaan, which
bEleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’
houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave to them as inheritances,
Josh. 14
:2
14:2
By the
1alot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
C.
No land allotted to the tribe of Levi
14:3-5
Josh. 14
:3
14:3
For Moses had given the inheritance of the
atwo tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan;
but to the
bLevites he did not give an inheritance among them.
Josh. 14
:4
14:4
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, but only
acities to dwell in with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.
Josh. 14
:5
14:5
As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; thus they divided the land.
D.
The land allotted to the tribe of Judah
14:6—15:63
Josh. 14
:6
14:6
Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and
aCaleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the
bword that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
Josh. 14
:7
14:7
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I
areturned such a word to him as was
genuinely upon my heart.
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14:8
However my brothers who went up with me made the people’s heart
amelt, but I fully
bfollowed Jehovah my God.
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:9
14:9
And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has
atrodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God.
Josh. 14
:10
14:10
And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old.
Josh. 14
:11
14:11
Today I am still as
astrong as
I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in.
Josh. 14
:12
14:12
Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the
1aAnakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.
Josh. 14
:13
14:13
So Joshua blessed him; and he gave
1aHebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
Josh. 14
:14
14:14
Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel.
Josh. 14
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14:15
And the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. (This
Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
