1 These are the territories the children of Israel received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel allotted to them.
2 Their inheritance was assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
3 Moses had already given the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan, but he had given the Levites no inheritance among them.
4 The sons of Joseph had become two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land, only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their livestock and their herds.
5 So the children of Israel divided the land, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
6 The children of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD told 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 back to him an honest report.
8 My brothers who went up with me made the people's hearts melt with fear, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
9 So on that day Moses swore to me, 'The land your foot has walked on will be an inheritance for you and your descendants forever, because you wholly followed the LORD my God.'
10 Now, as you can see, the LORD has kept me alive these forty-five years, just as he promised, ever since the LORD said this to Moses while Israel was wandering in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength now is just as it was then, for battle and for going out and coming in.
12 So give me now this hill country the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with large fortified cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out as the LORD said."
13 Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
14 That is why Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
15 Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.