1And 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.
2By lot was their
inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the
half tribe.
3For 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.
4For 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.
5As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children
of Israel did, and they divided the land.
6Then 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.
7Forty 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.
8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with
me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly
followed the LORD my God.
9And 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.
10And 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.
11As 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.
12Now 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.
13And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb
the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
14Hebron 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.
15And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which
Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the
land had rest from war.
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