Joshua 14:5 - Prayer Tents

Summary of Allocations

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 inheritanceH1121H3478H5157H776H3667H499H3548H3091H1121H5126H7218H1H4294H1121H3478H5157

2by lot, just as the Lord commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe,H1486H5159H3068H6680H3027H4872H8672H4294H2677H4294

3since 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,H4872H5414H5159H8147H4294H2677H4294H5676H3383H3881H5414H5159H8432

4since 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.H1121H3130H8147H4294H4519H669H5414H2506H3881H776H5892H3427H4054H4735H7075

5So 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.H1121H3063H5066H3091H1537H3612H1121H3312H7074H559H3045H1697H3068H1696H4872H376H430H182H182H6947

7I 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.H705H8141H1121H4872H5650H3068H7971H6947H7270H776H7725H1697H7725H3824

8As it happened, my fellow Israelites who went up with me terrified the people, but I fully followed the Lord my God.H251H5927H3820H5971H4529H4390H310H3068H430

9Moses 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.'147H4872H7650H3117H559H776H7272H1869H5159H1121H5704H5769H4390H310H3068H430

10"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!H3068H2421H1696H705H2568H8141H227H3068H1696H1697H4872H3478H1980H4057H3117H8084H2568H8141H1121

11I'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.H2389H3117H3117H4872H7971H3581H3581H4421H3318H935

12Now 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."11H5414H2022H3068H1696H3117H8085H3117H6062H5892H1419H1219H194H3068H854H3423H3068H1696

13So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Jephunneh's son Caleb for his inheritance.H3091H1288H5414H3612H1121H3312H2275H5159

14Therefore 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.H2275H5159H3612H1121H3312H7074H3117H4390H310H3068H430H3478

15Hebron 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