1Det følgende er de landområder, israelitterne fik i Kana’an. Det var Josva og præsten Eleazar, der sammen med stammernes overhoveder fordelte dem2ved lodtrækning imellem de resterende ni en halv stammer, sådan som Herren havde befalet Moses.3-4Området øst for Jordanfloden havde Moses allerede fordelt imellem de to en halv stammer. Josefs efterkommere udgjorde på det tidspunkt to stammer, Manasses stamme og Efraims stamme. Levitterne fik ingen jord, kun nogle byer at bo i og de omliggende græsmarker til deres hornkvæg og småkvæg.5Fordelingen af landet var således helt i overensstemmelse med de retningslinier, Herren havde givet Moses.6En delegation fra Judas stamme kom under Kalebs ledelse til Josva i Gilgal. „Husker du, hvad Herren sagde til Moses om os to, mens vi endnu var i Kadesh-Barnea?” spurgte Kaleb.7„Jeg var 40 år gammel, dengang Moses sendte os fra Kadesh-Barnea ind i Kana’an for at udspionere landet. Da vi kom tilbage, aflagde jeg rapport til ham efter bedste overbevisning.8Den rapport, som de andre spioner aflagde, gjorde imidlertid folket bange, så de ikke havde mod til at indtage landet. Men jeg stolede på Herren min Gud af hele mit hjerte.9Den dag lovede Moses mig: ‚Den del af Kana’ans land, som du har været inde i, skal altid tilhøre dig og dine efterkommere, fordi du har vist Herren fuld lydighed.’ ”10„Nu er jeg 85 år gammel,” fortsatte Kaleb, „og i de 45 år, der er gået, siden Herren talte til Moses om det her, har Herren bevaret mig gennem alt, inklusive den lange ørkenvandring.11I dag er jeg lige så stærk som dengang, Moses sendte os ind i landet. Jeg har den samme livskraft og kan stadig håndtere mine våben.12Derfor vil jeg anmode dig om at overdrage mig det højland, som Herren lovede mig. Du husker nok, at anakitterne bor der i store befæstede byer. Men ved Herrens hjælp skal jeg nok få jaget dem bort, som han lovede.”13Så velsignede Josva ham, og han gav ham højsletten med Hebron som arvelod.14Sådan kom Hebron til at tilhøre Kalebs slægt, og det gør den stadig, fordi han viste Herren fuld lydighed.15Hebron blev tidligere kaldt Kirjat-Arba efter Arba, som var den største af de anakitiske kæmper. Josva førte nu ikke flere krige.
1These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. (4.Mos 34,17; Josva 17,4; Josva 21,1)2Their inheritance was by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. (4.Mos 26,56; 4.Mos 33,54; 4.Mos 34,13)3For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. (Josva 13,8; Josva 13,33)4For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. (1.Mos 48,5; 1.Krøn 5,1)5The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land. (4.Mos 35,1; Josva 21,2)
Caleb’s Request and Inheritance
6Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. (4.Mos 14,24; 4.Mos 14,30; 4.Mos 32,12; 5.Mos 1,36; 5.Mos 1,38; Josva 14,13; Josva 15,17)7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. (4.Mos 13,6; 4.Mos 13,16; 4.Mos 13,30; 4.Mos 14,6)8But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. (4.Mos 13,31; 5.Mos 1,28)9And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ (4.Mos 14,24; 5.Mos 1,36; Josva 1,3)10And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. (4.Mos 14,30; Josva 14,7)11I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. (5.Mos 31,2; 5.Mos 34,7)12So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.” (4.Mos 13,28; 4.Mos 13,33)13Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. (Josva 10,36; Josva 15,13; Josva 21,11; Josva 22,6; Dom 1,20; 1.Krøn 6,55)14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. (Josva 14,8)15Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.[1] (Arba[2] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war. (1.Mos 23,2; 1.Mos 35,27; Josva 10,36; Josva 11,23; Josva 14,13; Dom 1,10)