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CHAPTER 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
7
Forty years old
was
I when Moses the servant of the
L
ORD
sent me from Kadesh-barnea 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
my God.
10
And now, behold, the L
ORD
hath kept me alive, as he
said, these forty and five years, even since the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
will be
with me, then I shall be
able to drive them out, as the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
God of
Israel.
15
And the name of Hebron before
was
Kirjath-arba;
which Arba was
a great man among
the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
CHAPTER 15
This
then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families;
even
to the border of
Edom the wilderness of Zin southward
was
the uttermost part of the south coast.
2
And their south
border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
3
And it went out
to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side
unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to
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