Chapter 14
1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan , which Eleazar the priest , Joshua the son of Nun , and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel , distributed to them ,
2 by the lot of their inheritance , as Yahweh commanded by Moses , for the nine tribes , and for the half-tribe .
3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan ; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them .
4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes , Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land , except cities to dwell in , with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property .
5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses , and they divided the land.
6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal . Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him , " You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart .
8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt ; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God .
9 Moses swore on that day , saying, ‘ Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever , because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God .’
10 " Now , behold , Yahweh has kept me alive , as he spoke , these forty-five years , from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses , while Israel walked in the wilderness . Now , behold , I am eighty-five years old , today .
11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me . As my strength was then , even so is my strength now for war , to go out and to come in .
12 Now therefore give me this hill country , of which Yahweh spoke in that day ; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there , and great and fortified cities . It may be that Yahweh will be with me , and I shall drive them out , as Yahweh said ."
13 Joshua blessed him ; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance .
14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day , because he followed Yahweh , the God of Israel wholeheartedly .
15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim . Then the land had rest from war .