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Joshua 14 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Land Divided West of the Jordan
The Land West of the Jordan; Hebron Given to Caleb
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:1 - These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2 - Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given no inheritance among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - For the children of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:5 - As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
Caleb Inherits Hebron
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - “So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13 - And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war.
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