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geneva@Joshua:14:1 @ These also are the places which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

geneva@Joshua:14:2 @ By the lot of their inheritance, as the Lord had commaunded by the hande of Moses, to giue to the nine tribes, and the halfe tribe.

geneva@Joshua:14:3 @ For Moses had given the inheritance of (note:)As Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, (Num_32:33).(:note) two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

geneva@Joshua:14:4 @ For the children of Joseph were (note:)So though Levi lacked, yet were there still twelve tribes by this means.(:note) two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

geneva@Joshua:14:5 @ As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did when they deuided the land.

geneva@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and (note:)Which was that only those two should enter into the land, (Num_14:24).(:note) thee in Kadeshbarnea.

geneva@Joshua:14:7 @ Fourtie yeere olde was I, when Moses the seruant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espie the land, and I brought him word againe, as I thought in mine heart.

geneva@Joshua:14:8 @ Nevertheless my (note:)Which were the ten other spies.(:note) brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

geneva@Joshua:14:9 @ Wherefore Moses sware the same day, saying, Certainely the land whereon thy feete haue troden, shalbe thine inheritance, & thy childrens for euer, because thou hast followed constantly the Lord my God.

geneva@Joshua:14:10 @ Therefore beholde nowe, the Lorde hath kept me aliue, as he promised: this is the fourtie and fift yeere since the Lord spake this thing vnto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wildernes: and nowe loe, I am this day foure score and fiue yeere olde:

geneva@Joshua:14:11 @ And yet am as strong at this time, as I was when Moses sent me: as strong as I was then, so strong am I nowe, either for warre, or for gouernment.

geneva@Joshua:14:12 @ Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: (note:)This he spoke out of modesty, and not from doubting.(:note) if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

geneva@Joshua:14:13 @ Then Ioshua blessed him, and gaue vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance.

geneva@Joshua:14:14 @ Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite, vnto this day: because he followed constantly the Lord God of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:14:15 @ And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a (note:)Either for his power or person.(:note) great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

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