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    Joshua 14

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    At eighty-five, Caleb asks for the country occupied by the Anakim and their fortified cities, remarking that his strength has apparently declined not at all.

    The land is dividedvv. 1–5

    The inheritance of Canaan is distributed at Gilgal by Eleazar, Joshua, and the tribal heads. Lots settle the portions of the nine and a half tribes; Moses had already assigned land east of the Jordan to the other two and a half. The Levites receive no ordinary territory, only cities and pasturelands, while Joseph’s descendants are counted as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. A careful arrangement, then, with the Levites given somewhere to keep the cattle rather than somewhere to plant a flag.

    Caleb chooses the difficult hillvv. 6–15

    At Gilgal, Caleb son of Jephunneh reminds Joshua of the first expedition from Kadesh-barnea, when Caleb brought back an honest report while the other spies made the people afraid. Forty-five years have passed, and Caleb is now eighty-five; nevertheless, he declares himself as strong as when Moses sent him out. His request is not for an easy corner but for the hill country where the Anakim live in great fortified cities. Joshua gives him Hebron. The chapter then pauses to explain that Hebron was once called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim—a remarkably precise label for a place just handed to an elderly man who has asked for trouble by name.

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    1. Josh 14:1Now 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.

    2. Josh 14:2Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

    3. Josh 14:3For 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.

    4. Josh 14:4The 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.

    5. Josh 14:5So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

    6. Josh 14:6Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

    7. Josh 14:7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.

    8. Josh 14:8Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

    9. Josh 14:9On 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 the LORD my God.’

    10. Josh 14:10Now behold, as the LORD 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,

    11. Josh 14:11still 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.

    12. Josh 14:12Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”

    13. Josh 14:13Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

    14. Josh 14:14Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

    15. Josh 14:15(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

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    • 12Hebrews 11:33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
    • 6Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
    • 8Numbers 14:24But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
    • 9Joshua 1:3I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.
    • 11Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
    • 12Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
    • 6Numbers 13:6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
    • 12Numbers 13:33We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
    • 8Deuteronomy 1:36except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
    • 11Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
    • 12Numbers 13:28Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
    • 13Judges 1:20Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.
    • 15Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
    • 2Numbers 34:13So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
    • 2Numbers 33:54And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
    • 4Genesis 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

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