Chapter 14 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in
the land of Canaan, which Eliezer the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for
inheritance to them.
By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses,
for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes, and a half-tribe on the other side
Jordan, but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
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 their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided
the land.
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said
unto Moses, This is the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh Barnea.
Forty years old was I, when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh
Barnea to espy out the land, and I brought him word again, as it was in mine heart.
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt,
but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
And Moses swear on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have
trodden shall be thine inheritance and thy children's for ever, because thou hast
wholly followed the Lord my God.
And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five
years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel
wandered in the wilderness.
And now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old, as yet I am as strong this
day as I was in the day that Moses sent me.
As my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war both to go out and
to come in.
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day.
For thou heardest in that day how the Anicams were there, and that the cities
were great and fenced.
If so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out,
as the Lord said.
And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an
inheritance.
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite
unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath Arba, which Arba was a great man among the
Anicams, and the land had rest from war.