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Joshua chapter 14

Here is what the people of Israel received as their in — what , Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral clans of the Israelite tribes distributed to them.Their land was assigned by , just as Yahweh had commanded through Moses — for the nine and a half tribes.Moses had already given land to the other two and a half tribes on the east side of the Jordan, but he hadn’t given any land among them to the .The descendants of Joseph had become two tribes — — and the Levites weren’t given any territory of their own. They only received towns to live in, with for their herds and flocks.The people of Israel did exactly what Yahweh had commanded Moses — that’s how they divided up the land.The people of Judah came to Joshua at , and Caleb son of Jephunneh the said to him, “You know what Yahweh said to Moses, the , about you and me at .”“I was forty years old when Moses, Yahweh’s servant, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to the land. I brought back an honest report — I told him exactly what I thought.”“My brothers who went up with me , but I .”“That day Moses made a : ‘The land your feet have walked on will belong to you and your descendants forever, because you followed Yahweh my God with your whole heart.’”“And now look — Yahweh has kept me alive, just as he said he would, for forty-five years since Yahweh made that promise to Moses while Israel was traveling through the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old.”“I’m still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My for battle and for everything else is exactly the same as it was then.”“So give me this that Yahweh promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the live there in large, . But if Yahweh is with me, I’ll drive them out, just as he said.”Joshua Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him as his .That’s why Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite — because he .Hebron used to be called — named after Arba, among the Anakim. And .