Joshua 14

New King James Version

The Land Divided West of the Jordan

14 These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, ^(A)which 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. ² Their inheritance was ^(B)by lot, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. ^3 (C)For 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. ⁴ For ^(D)the children of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except ^(E)cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their property. ^5 (F)As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.

Caleb Inherits Hebron

⁶ Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(G)Kenizzite said to him: “You know ^(H)the word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning ^(I)you and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(J)sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. ⁸ Nevertheless ^(K)my brethren who went up with me made the ^[a]heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^(L)followed the Lord my God. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(M)‘Surely the land ^(N)where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^(O)alive, ^(P)as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel ^[b]wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. ^11 (Q)As 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 ^(R)for going out and for coming in. ¹² Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^(S)the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^(T)It may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^(U)I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

¹³ And Joshua ^(V)blessed him, ^(W)and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. ^14 (X)Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he ^(Y)wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵ And ^(Z)the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).

^(AA)Then the land had rest from war.