14 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.