| Chapter
14 |
| 1 | And
these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of
Canaan, which Eleazar 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. |
| 2 | By
lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the
nine tribes, and for the half tribe. |
|
3 | For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half
tribe on the other side 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 their
suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. |
|
5 | As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel did, and 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 the
thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in
Kadeshbarnea. |
| 7 | Forty
years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to
espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. |
| 8 | Nevertheless my brethren
that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed
the LORD my God. |
| 9 | And
Moses sware 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. |
|
10 | 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. |
| 11
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 13
| And 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 that he wholly followed the LORD God of
Israel. |
| 15 | And the name
of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims.
And the land had rest from war. |
