Joshua 14:1-5

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.

Joshua 14:1-5 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.

Cross References

• 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

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "fathers'"
• [b]. Lit "by the hand of"