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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Joshua 14 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Joshua 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/13.htm" title="Joshua 13">◄</a> Joshua 14 <a href="../joshua/15.htm" title="Joshua 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/joshua/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Inheritance West of the Jordan</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Their inheritance was by lot, just as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The people of Israel did as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses; they allotted the land.</p> <p class="heading">Caleb’s Request and Inheritance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And now, behold, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So now give me this hill country of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Kiriath-arba means the city of Arba">a</a></sup></span> (Arba<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew He">b</a></sup></span> was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <i class="catch-word">Kiriath-arba</i> means <i>the city of Arba</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i>He</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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