Event · Conquest and Judges
The land divided among the tribes
The land divided among the tribesJoshua 14:6–15Depends on the date of the exodus
Joshua divides the land among the tribes; Caleb receives Hebron as Moses promised.
- Main passage Joshua 14:6–15
- Related Joshua 13:1–7Joshua 18:1–10
Places named Hebron Joshua 14:13 · Shiloh Joshua 18:1
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- Depends on the date of the exodus Disputed date
The entry into Canaan follows forty years after the exodus, so it is dated either to the late fifteenth or to the late thirteenth century BCE, according to the view of the exodus taken.
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Joshua 14:6–15 WEB
6Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. 7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’ 10“Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today. 11As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in. 12Now therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said.” 13Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel wholeheartedly. 15Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.