Joshua 14

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

1 These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, a 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. 2 Their inheritance was b by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. 3 c 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. 4 For d the children of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except e cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for their livestock and their property. 5 f As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.

Caleb's Request and Inheritance

6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the g Kenizzite said to him: "You know h the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning i you and me in Kadesh Barnea. 7 "I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD j sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. 8 "Nevertheless k my brethren who went up with me made the 1 heart of the people melt, but I wholly l followed the LORD my God. 9 "So Moses swore on that day, saying, m 'Surely the land n where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children's forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.' 10 "And now, behold, the LORD has kept me o alive, p as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel 2 wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. 11 q "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 r for going out and for coming in. 12 "Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how s the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. t It may be that the LORD will be with me, and u I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said."

13 And Joshua v blessed him, w and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 14 x Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he y wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And z the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). a Then the land had rest from war.

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 34:16 - 29
    And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 26:55
    But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
    Numbers 33:54
    And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone's inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
    Numbers 34:13
    Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.
    Psalms 16:5
    O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 32:33
    So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
    Joshua 13:8
    With the other half-tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD had given them:
    Joshua 13:32
    These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward.
    Joshua 13:33
    But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 41:51
    Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasse...
    Genesis 46:20
    And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Ma...
    Genesis 48:1
    Now it came to pass after these things that Jos...
    Genesis 48:5
    And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, wh...
    Numbers 26:28
    The sons of Joseph according to their families,...
    2 Chronicles 30:1
    And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and ...
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 35:2 - 8
    Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.
    Joshua 21:1 - 42
    Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 35:2
    Command the children of Israel that they give the Levites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall also give the Levites common-land around the cities.
    Joshua 21:2
    And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 32:11
    Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me.
    Numbers 32:12
    'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
    Numbers 14:30
    Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 13:26
    Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
  10. Cross References
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
    Numbers 13:17
    Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains.
    Numbers 14:6
    But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 13:31
    But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
    Numbers 13:32
    And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.'
  13. Cross References
    Numbers 14:23
    They certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
    Numbers 14:24
    But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 13:22
    And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.'
  15. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
    Numbers 14:30
    Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
    Numbers 14:38
    But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.
  16. Cross References
    Joshua 5:6
    For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD - to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey.
    Nehemiah 9:21
    Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out And their feet did not swell.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 34:7
    Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:2
    And he said to them: "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, 'You shall not cross over this Jordan.
  19. Cross References
    Numbers 13:28
    Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
    Numbers 13:33
    "There we saw the giants ( the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
  20. Cross References
    Romans 8:31
    What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  21. Cross References
    Joshua 15:14
    Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
    Judges 1:20
    And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said. Then he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.
  22. Cross References
    Joshua 22:6
    So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
  23. Cross References
    Joshua 10:37
    And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword - its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.
    Joshua 15:13
    Now to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a share among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, namely, Kirjath Arba, which is Hebron ( Arba was the father of Anak).
  24. Cross References
    Joshua 21:12
    But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
  25. Cross References
    Joshua 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.
    Joshua 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.'
  26. Cross References
    Genesis 23:2
    So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
    Joshua 15:13
    Now to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a share among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, namely, Kirjath Arba, which is Hebron ( Arba was the father of Anak).
  27. Cross References
    Joshua 11:23
    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
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