Joshua 14:6-14

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.

7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,

8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.

9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’^[a]

10 “Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!

11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.

12 Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

14 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.

Joshua 14:6-14 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 Deuteronomy 11:30
• 2. Numbers 13:6; Numbers 14:30
• 3. S Deuteronomy 33:1
• 4. Numbers 13:26
• 5. S Numbers 14:38
• 6. Joshua 15:3
• 7. S Numbers 13:17
• 8. Numbers 13:30; S Numbers 14:6-9
• 9. S Numbers 13:31
• 10. S Numbers 14:24; S Numbers 32:12
• 11. S Deuteronomy 11:24
• 12. S Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36
• 13. S Numbers 11:28; Numbers 14:30
• 14. S Joshua 5:6
• 15. S Joshua 13:1
• 16. S Deuteronomy 34:7
• 17. S Genesis 15:15
• 18. S Numbers 14:24
• 19. S Numbers 13:33
• 20. Numbers 13:28
• 21. Joshua 22:6,7
• 22. 1 Samuel 25:3; 1 Samuel 30:14
• 23. S Genesis 23:19; S Joshua 10:36
• 24. Judges 1:20; 1 Chronicles 6:56
• 25. S Numbers 14:24

Footnotes

• [a] Deut. 1:36