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