Joshua 14

Land Division West of the Jordan

¹Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel. ²Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as Yahweh had commanded through Moses. ³For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.

⁴The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

⁵So the Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

Caleb Requests Hebron

⁶Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what Yahweh said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. ⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

• JOSH 14:6[FULFILLS]That generation would die in the wilderness over 40 years ← NUM 14:28-35
• JOSH 14:7[HEART]Caleb told the truth that was in his heart. The other spies made the people's hearts melt.

⁸Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to Yahweh my God. ⁹On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

¹⁰Now behold, as Yahweh promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old, ¹¹still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.

• JOSH 14:10[NOTE]Caleb was forty when Moses sent the spies, 14:7, and eighty five now. Israel wandered thirty eight more years after the spies, Deuteronomy 2:14, so the fighting in the land took about seven years.

¹²Now therefore give me this hill country that Yahweh promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with Yahweh’s help I will drive them out, as Yahweh has spoken.”

• JOSH 14:12[DEMONIC]Caleb requested Hebron — driving out the Anakim

¹³Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. ¹⁴Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁵(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.)

• JOSH 14:13[FULFILLS]Caleb would enter the land and his descendants would inherit it ← NUM 14:24

Then the land had rest from war.