Joshua 14:1-6

Division of the Land West of the Jordan

1 Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them.

2 Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

3 Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,

4 for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

5 So the Israelites divided the land, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Allotment for Caleb

6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.

Joshua 14:1-6 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. S Joshua 11:23; Psalms 16:6; Psalms 136:21
• 2. S Exodus 6:23
• 3. Joshua 21:1
• 4. S Numbers 26:53
• 5. Numbers 34:17-18; Joshua 19:51
• 6. S Leviticus 16:8; Numbers 26:55
• 7. Numbers 34:13
• 8. S Numbers 32:33; S Numbers 34:14
• 9. S Numbers 35:2; S Joshua 13:14
• 10. S Genesis 41:52; S Judges 1:29; 48:5
• 11. S Numbers 35:2-3; Joshua 21:2
• 12. S Numbers 34:13; Numbers 35:2; Joshua 21:2
• 13. S Deuteronomy 11:30
• 14. Numbers 13:6; Numbers 14:30
• 15. S Deuteronomy 33:1
• 16. Numbers 13:26
• 17. S Numbers 14:38