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Jos 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.
Jos 14:2 By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand
of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
Jos 14:3 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.
Jos 14:4 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.
Jos 14:5 As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and
they divided the land.
Jos 14:6 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.
Jos 14:7 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.
Jos 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of
the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
Jos 14:9 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.
Jos 14:10 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.
Jos 14:11 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.
Jos 14:12 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.
Jos 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh
Hebron for an inheritance.
Jos 14:14 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.
Jos 14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a
great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war. |