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So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you
were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever,
because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.’
10 “Now, as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well as he promised for
all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old. 11 I am as strong now as
I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well
as I could then. 12 So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will
remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great,
walled towns. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as
the Lord said.”
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So Joshua blessed Caleb
The land
of
Canaan
son of Jephunneh
and gave Hebron to him
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“‘
on which you
were just walking
as his portion of land.
will
be
Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Keniz-
zite because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 (Previously
Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero
of the descendants of Anak.)
And the land had rest from war.
The Land Given to the Tribe of Judah
The allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah reached southward to the
border of Edom, as far south as the wilderness of Zin.
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The southern boundary began at the south bay of the Dead Sea, ran
south of Scorpion Pass into the wilderness of Zin, and then went south of
Kadesh-barnea to Hezron. Then it went up to Addar, where it turned toward
Karka. 4 From there it passed to Azmon until it finally reached the Brook of
Egypt, which it followed to the Mediterranean Sea. This was their southern
boundary.
5 The eastern boundary extended along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the
Jordan River.
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The northern boundary
began at the bay where the Jordan River
empties into the Dead Sea,
went up from there to Beth-hoglah, then proceeded north of Beth-arabah
to the Stone of Bohan. (Bohan was Reuben’s son.) 7 From that point it went
through the valley of Achor to Debir, turning north toward Gilgal, which
is across from the slopes of Adummim on the south side of the valley.
From there the boundary extended to the springs at En-shemesh and on to
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your grant
of land
& that of your
descendants
forever,
because you
wholeheartedly
followed
the L ORD
my God.’”
Joshua 14:9
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