Joshua 14
1NOW these are they of the children of Israel who got possessions in the land of Chanaan, to whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Naue, and the chiefs of the patriarchal families of the tribes of Israel, gave possessions.
2They gave possessions by lot, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Joshua, to nine tribes and the half of a tribe on this side the Jordan;
3but to the Levites he gave no lot among them.
4Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasses and Ephraim; there was therefore no portion of land given to the Levites, but only cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for their cattle; for they had cattle.
5As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, when they divided the land.
6Now the children of Juda had come to Joshua at Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, respecting me and thee at Kades-Barne; for I was forty years old, when Moses the servant of God sent me from Kades-Barne to spy the land, and I made him a report to his mind.
8My brethren who went up with me disturbed the heart of the people; but I determined to follow the Lord my God;
9so Moses solemnly promised that day, saying, The land to which thou hast gone up shall be thy lot, and thy children’s forever, for a possession, because thou hast determined to follow the Lord our God.
10Now the Lord hath kept me alive as he said. This is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, and Israel commenced their wanderings in the wilderness. And behold I am now eighty-five years of age;
11yet I am now as strong as when Moses sent me; as able now as then to go out and come into battle;
12now therefore I ask of thee that mountain, as the Lord said on that day; for thou didst hear the word on that day. The Enakims indeed are now there; the cities are fortified and large; if then the Lord be with me, I will exterminate them, as the Lord said to me.
13Thereupon Joshua blessed him, and gave to Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, Chebron for a possession.
14For this cause Chebron had become the possession of Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, at this day, because he followed the command of the Lord God of Israel.
15Now the name of Chebron, formerly, was city Argob. It was the metropolis of the Enakims.