14Joshua 14

The Division of the Territory West of the Jordan

1What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population.Select Joshua 14:1

2As the Lord had commanded Moses, the territories of the nine and one-half tribes west of the Jordan were determined by drawing lots.Select Joshua 14:2

4Moses had already assigned the land east of the Jordan to the other two and one-half tribes. (The descendants of Joseph were divided into two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.) However, Moses gave the Levites no portion of the territory. Instead, they received cities to live in, with fields for their cattle and flocks.Select Joshua 14:4

5The people of Israel divided the land as the Lord had commanded Moses.Select Joshua 14:5

Hebron Is Given to Caleb

6One day some people from the tribe of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them, Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what the Lord said in Kadesh Barnea about you and me to Moses, the man of God.Select Joshua 14:6

7I was forty years old when the Lord's servant Moses sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out this land. I brought an honest report back to him.Select Joshua 14:7

8The men who went with me, however, made our people afraid. But I faithfully obeyed the Lord my God.Select Joshua 14:8

9Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over.Select Joshua 14:9

10But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the Lord said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the Lord, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years oldSelect Joshua 14:10

11and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else.Select Joshua 14:11

12Now then, give me the hill country that the Lord promised me on that day when my men and I reported. We told you then that the race of giants called the Anakim were there in large walled cities. Maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.”Select Joshua 14:12

13Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron as his possession.Select Joshua 14:13

14Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, because he faithfully obeyed the Lord, the God of Israel.Select Joshua 14:14

15Before this, Hebron was called the city of Arba. (Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.) There was now peace in the land.Select Joshua 14:15