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Joshua Chapter 14

¹These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them, ²by the lot of their inheritance, as ForeverOne commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for 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: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.

⁵The children of Israel did as ForeverOne commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

⁶Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the thing that ForeverOne spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of ForeverOne sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

⁸Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed ForeverOne my God.

⁹Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed ForeverOne my God.' ¹⁰"Now, behold, ForeverOne has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that ForeverOne spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

¹¹As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

¹²Now therefore give me this hill country, of which ForeverOne spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that ForeverOne will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as ForeverOne spoke." ¹³Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

¹⁴Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

¹⁵Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.