14This is what the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Nun's son Joshua, and the heads of the families of the Israelites allotted to them as an inheritanceH1121H3478H5157H776H3667H499H3548H3091H1121H5126H7218H1H4294H1121H3478H51572by lot, just as the Lord commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe,H1486H5159H3068H6680H3027H4872H8672H4294H2677H42943since Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan River. However, he did not give an inheritance to the Levites who lived among them,H4872H5414H5159H8147H4294H2677H4294H5676H3383H3881H5414H5159H84324since the descendants of Joseph constituted two tribes - Manasseh and Ephraim. They did not allot a portion to the Levites in the land, since they were given cities to live in, along with pastures for their livestock and property.H1121H3130H8147H4294H4519H669H5414H2506H3881H776H5892H3427H4054H4735H70755So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses - they divided the land.H3068H6680H4872H1121H3478H6213H2505H776
Caleb’s Request
6After this, the descendants of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal. Jephunneh the Kenizzite's son Caleb said to him, "You know the promise that the Lord gave Moses the man of God concerning the two of us in Kadesh-barnea.H1121H3063H5066H3091H1537H3612H1121H3312H7074H559H3045H1697H3068H1696H4872H376H430H182H182H69477I was 40 years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land. I brought back an honest report to him.H705H8141H1121H4872H5650H3068H7971H6947H7270H776H7725H1697H7725H38248As it happened, my fellow Israelites who went up with me terrified the people, but I fully followed the Lord my God.H251H5927H3820H5971H4529H4390H310H3068H4309Moses made a promise to me on that day when he said, 'The land that you covered on foot will certainly be your inheritance. It will belong to your descendants forever, because you have fully followed the Lord my God.'147H4872H7650H3117H559H776H7272H1869H5159H1121H5704H5769H4390H310H3068H43010"Look how the Lord has let me survive, as you can see, these 45 years since the time when the Lord said this through Moses, while Israel was wandering through the wilderness. And look! I'm here today - my eighty-fifth birthday!H3068H2421H1696H705H2568H8141H227H3068H1696H1697H4872H3478H1980H4057H3117H8084H2568H8141H112111I'm still as strong today as I was the day Moses commissioned me. I'm as strong today as I was then, and I can go out to battle and come back successful.H2389H3117H3117H4872H7971H3581H3581H4421H3318H93512Now then, give me that hill country about which the Lord spoke back on that day, because you yourself heard back then that the Anakim were there, with great reinforced cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will expel them, just as the Lord said."11H5414H2022H3068H1696H3117H8085H3117H6062H5892H1419H1219H194H3068H854H3423H3068H169613So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Jephunneh's son Caleb for his inheritance.H3091H1288H5414H3612H1121H3312H2275H515914Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Jephunneh the Kenizzite's son Caleb, and it remains so today, because he fully followed the Lord God of Israel.H2275H5159H3612H1121H3312H7074H3117H4390H310H3068H430H347815Hebron used to be known as Kiriath-arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. After all of this, the land enjoyed rest from war.14H8034H2275H6440H7153H1419H120H6062H776H8252H4421