Joshua 14:1-11

Caleb's Request

1 Now these are the territories which the sons of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which ¹Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel apportioned to them for an inheritance,

2 by the ²lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded through Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe *.

3 For ³Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe * beyond * the Jordan; but ⁴he did not give an inheritance to the Levites among them.

4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, ⁵Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except * cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

5 Thus the sons of Israel did just ⁶as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

6 Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and ⁷Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word which the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning * you and me in Kadesh-barnea.

7 "I was forty years old when ⁸Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart.

8 "Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but ⁹I followed the LORD my God fully.

9 "So Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely * ¹⁰the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever *, because you have followed the LORD my God fully.'

10 "Now behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five * years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

11 "¹¹I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for ¹²going out and coming in.

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Joshua 14:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 14

This chapter proceeds to give an account of the countries divided to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, Jos 14:1-5; but previous to that division relates the claim of Caleb to Hebron, through a promise made unto him by Moses forty five years ago, upon his report of the good land, whither he was sent a spy by him, Jos 14:6-12; and the grant which Joshua made of it to him, with his blessing, Jos 14:13-15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Numbers 34:16-29
2. Numbers 26:55; Numbers 33:54; Numbers 34:13
3. Numbers 32:33
4. Joshua 13:14
5. Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 48:1, 5; Numbers 26:28; 2 Chronicles 30:1
6. Numbers 35:1; Joshua 21:2
7. Numbers 13:6, 30; Numbers 14:6, 24, 30
8. Numbers 13:1-31
9. Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36
10. Deuteronomy 1:36
11. Deuteronomy 34:7
12. Deuteronomy 31:2

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "fathers'"
[b]. Lit "by the hand of"
[c]. Lit "me and concerning you"
[d]. Lit "become demoralized"