Thematic Bible
Joshua 14:1 (show verse)
These [are the territories] that the {Israelites} inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the {Israelites} gave as an inheritance to them.
Joshua 14:2 (show verse)
Their inheritance [was] by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
Joshua 14:3 (show verse)
For Moses had given [an] inheritance of [the] two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
Joshua 14:4 (show verse)
For the descendants of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a plot of ground to the Levites in the land, only cities to live [in], with their pastureland for their flocks and for their goods.
Joshua 14:5 (show verse)
Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the {Israelites} did; and they allotted the land.
Joshua 14:6 (show verse)
Then the descendants of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word that Yahweh said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me.
Joshua 14:7 (show verse)
{I was forty years old} when Moses Yahweh's servant sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I returned {with an honest report}.
Joshua 14:8 (show verse)
My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I remained true to Yahweh my God.
Joshua 14:9 (show verse)
And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land that your foot has trodden on will be an inheritance to you and your sons forever, because you remained true to Yahweh my God.'
Joshua 14:10 (show verse)
So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel {wandered} in the wilderness. Now look, today {I am eighty-five years old}.
Joshua 14:11 (show verse)
Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength [was] then, so now also [is] my strength for war {and for daily activities}.
Joshua 14:12 (show verse)
So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke [of] on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites [were] there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh [is] with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised."
Joshua 14:13 (show verse)
And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
Joshua 14:14 (show verse)
Thus Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he remained true to Yahweh the God of Israel.
Joshua 14:15 (show verse)
And the name of Hebron formerly [was] Kiriath Arba; [Arba was] the greatest person among the Anakites. And the land rested from war.