Joshua 14

The Land Is Distributed by Lot

1These are the inheritances that the children of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral houses of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed to them, 2by lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. 3For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and possessions. 5As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

Caleb Requests Hebron

6Then the children of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that the LORD spoke to Moses, the man of God, concerning me and concerning you at Kadesh-Barnea. 7I was forty years old when Moses servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. 8But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, yet I fully followed the LORD my God. 9Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and for your children forever, because you fully followed the LORD my God.’ 10And now, look, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years from the time the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, look, I am eighty-five years old today. 11I am still as strong today as I was on the day Moses sent me. As my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in. 12Now therefore give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day. For you heard on that day that the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.” 13Then Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he fully followed the LORD, the God of Israel. 15The name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-Arba. Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.

And the land had rest from war.