Joshua 14:1

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

1 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which ¹Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.

Joshua 14:1 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 14:1

And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan
Of which an exact account is given in the following chapters, particularly in the ( Joshua 15:1-19:51 ) ;

which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of
the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for an
inheritance unto them;
namely, ten princes, one of each tribe, who, with Eleazar and Joshua, were appointed of the Lord by name to do this business, even seven years ago, before their entrance into the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 34:17-29 ) .

Joshua 14:1 In-Context

1 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.

2 Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.

3 For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

4 For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.

5 The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Cross References

• 1. Joshua 17:4; Joshua 21:1; Numbers 34:17, 18