Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Joshua
Chapter 14
1. AND these
are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of
Ca-na-an, which El-e-a-zar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and
the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,
distributed for inheritance to them.
2. By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
3. For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe
on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance
among them.
4. For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Ma-nas-seh and E-phra-im:
therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to
dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
5. As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they
divided the land.
6. Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the
son of Je-phun-neh the Ke-nez-ite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing
that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in
Ka-desh-bar-ne-a.
7. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from
Kadesh-bar-ne-a to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it
was in mine heart.
8. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the
people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
9. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet
have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever,
because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
10. And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these
forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses,
while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I
am this day fourscore and five years old.
11. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent
me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both
to go out, and to come in.
12. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
day; for thou heardest in that day how the An-a-kims were there, and
that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with
me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
13. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh
Hebron for an inheritance.
14. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Je-phun-neh the Ke-nez-ite unto this day, because that he wholly
followed the LORD God of Israel.
15. And the name of Hebron before was Kir-jath-ar-ba; which Arba was a
great man among the An-a-kims. And the land had rest from war.
Mar. 23 Daily
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