May
16
Joshua
13, 14
Jos
13:1 Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to
him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet
very much land to be possessed.
Jos
13:2 This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
Jos
13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of
Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
Jos
13:4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that
belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
Jos
13:5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the
sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
Jos
13:6 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Jos
13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine
tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh."
Jos
13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even
as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
Jos
13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of
Medeba to Dibon;
Jos
13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned
in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
Jos
13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites,
and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
Jos
13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and
in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for
Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
Jos
13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the
Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the
midst of Israel to this day.
Jos
13:14 Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The
offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him.
Jos
13:15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to
their families.
Jos
13:16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley
of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and
all the plain by Medeba;
Jos
13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
Jos
13:18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Jos
13:19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
Jos
13:20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
Jos
13:21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king
of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the
chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of
Sihon, who lived in the land.
Jos
13:22 The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of
Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
Jos
13:23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the
Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according
to their families, the cities and its villages.
Jos
13:24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad,
according to their families.
Jos
13:25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half
the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
Jos
13:26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from
Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
Jos
13:27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and
Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the
Jordan's bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond
the Jordan eastward.
Jos
13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to
their families, the cities and its villages.
Jos
13:29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It
was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their
families.
Jos
13:30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan,
sixty cities.
Jos
13:31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom
of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh,
even for the half of the children of Machir according to their
families.
Jos
13:32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the
plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
Jos
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh,
the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
Jos
14:1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in
the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed to them,
Jos
14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses,
for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
Jos
14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the
half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no
inheritance among them.
Jos
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except
cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for
their property.
Jos
14:5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they
divided the land.
Jos
14:6 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb
the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the
thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and
concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
Jos
14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me
from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as
it was in my heart.
Jos
14:8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of
the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
Jos
14:9 Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you
walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever,
because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.'
Jos
14:10 Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses,
while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five
years old, today.
Jos
14:11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses
sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war,
to go out and to come in.
Jos
14:12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke
in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and
great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me,
and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke."
Jos
14:13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Jos
14:14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed
Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Jos
14:15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the
greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.