Joshua 14:3-15 ▼

3 For Moses had given the inheritance to two of the tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of the Jordan; and to the Levites he had given not an inheritance in their midst.

4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their property.

5 As YHWH had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided the land.

6 And the sons of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that YHWH said to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.

7 I was a son of forty years when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him word as with my heart.

8 And my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, and I wholly followed after YHWH my God.

9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Nevertheless, the land where your foot has trodden in it shall be to you for an inheritance, and to your sons, even to forever, because you have wholly followed YHWH my God.’

10 And, behold, YHWH has kept me alive as He said these forty and five years, from when YHWH spoke this word to Moses when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and, behold, I am this day a son of five and eighty years.

11 Yet I am this day as strong as on the day that Moses sent me. As my power was then, so is my power now, for war, and to go out and come in.

12 And now, give to me this mountain, of which YHWH spoke in that day, for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and the cities were great and fortified. Perhaps YHWH will be with me, and I will dispossess them as YHWH has spoken.”

13 And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

14 Upon thus Hebron was to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite the inheritance to this day, because that he wholly followed YHWH, God of Israel.

15 (And the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba; he was the great man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.