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Joshue 14
This is what the children of Israel possessed in the
land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue
the son of Nun, and the princes of the families by the
tribes of Israel gave to them:
Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded by the
hand of Moses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.
For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession
beyond the Jordan: besides the Levites, who received
no land among their brethren:
But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph
divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither
did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities
to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts
and flocks.
As the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children
of Israel, and they divided the land.
Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and
Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him:
Thou knowest what the Lord spoke to Moses the man of
God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.
I was forty Bears old when Moses the servant of the
Lord sent me m from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and
I brought him word again as to me seemed true.
But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged
the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed
the Lord my God.
And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which
thy foot hath trodden upon shall be thy possession,
and thy children's for ever, because thou hast followed
the Lord my God.
The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised
until this present day. It is forty and five years since
the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel journeyed
through the wilderness: this day I am eighty-five years
old,
As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view
the land : the strength of that time continueth in me
until this day, as well to fight as to march.
Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised,
in thy hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities
great and strong: if so be the Lord will be with me,
and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised
me.
And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.
And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son
of Jephone the Cenezite, until this present day: because
he followed the Lord the God of Israel.
The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam
the greatest among the Enacims was laid there: and the
land rested from wars. |