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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Joshua 14 ISV</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><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="../">ISV</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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/joshua/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Summary of Allocations</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is what the Israelis inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Nun’s son Joshua, and the heads of the families of the Israelis allotted to them as an inheritance <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>by lot, just as the LORD commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>since Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan River. However, he did not give an inheritance to the descendants of Levi who lived among them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>since the descendants of Joseph constituted two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. They did not allot a portion to the descendants of Levi in the land, since they were given<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="14:4 The Heb. lacks they were given">a</a></span> cities to live in, along with pastures for their livestock and property. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the Israelis did just as the LORD had commanded Moses—they divided the land.</p> <p class="heading">Caleb’s Request</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/judges/1.htm">Judges 1:20</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After this, the descendants of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal. Jephunneh the Kenizzite’s son Caleb told him, “You know the promise that the LORD gave Moses the man of God concerning the two of us in Kadesh-barnea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I was 40 years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land. I brought back an honest report<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="14:7 Lit. a report with my heart">b</a></span> to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As it happened, my fellow Israelis who went up with me terrified the people, but I fully followed the LORD my God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Moses made a promise to me on that day when he said, ‘The land that you covered on foot will certainly be your inheritance. It will belong to your descendants forever, because you have fully followed the LORD my God.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Look how<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="14:10 The Heb. lacks how">c</a></span> the LORD has let me survive, as you can see, these 45 years since the time when the LORD said this through Moses, while Israel was wandering through the wilderness. And look! I’m here today—my eighty-fifth birthday! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I’m still as strong today as I was the day Moses commissioned me. I’m as strong today as I was then, and I can go out to battle and come back successful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now then, give me that hill country about which the LORD spoke back on that day, because you yourself heard back then that the Anakim<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="14:12 2 i.e. a race of giants that formerly populated Canaan; cf. Num 13:22, 33; Deut 9:2">d</a></span> were there, with great reinforced cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me and I will expel them, just as the LORD said.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Jephunneh’s son Caleb for his inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Jephunneh the Kenizzite’s son Caleb, and it remains so today, because he fully followed the LORD God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hebron used to be known as Kiriath-arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="14:15 i.e. a race of giants that formerly populated Canaan; cf. Num 13:22, 33; Deut 9:2">e</a></span> After all of this, the land enjoyed rest from war.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 14:4 The Heb. lacks <i>they were given</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 14:7 Lit. <i>a report with my heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 14:10 The Heb. lacks <i>how</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 14:12 2 i.e. a race of giants that formerly populated Canaan; cf. Num 13:22, 33; Deut 9:2<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 14:15 i.e. a race of giants that formerly populated Canaan; cf. 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