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The Lord had told Moses how to divide the land among the tribes of Israel. The Israelites divided the land the way the Lord had commanded.

Caleb Gets His Land

One day some people from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them was Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. Caleb said to Joshua, “You remember what the Lord said at Kadesh Barnea. The Lord was speaking to Moses, his servant.[a] The Lord was talking about you and me. Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me to look at the land where we were going. I was 40 years old at that time. When I came back, I told Moses what I thought about the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 14:6 his servant Literally, “the man of God.”

So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.(A)

Allotment for Caleb

Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal,(B) and Caleb son of Jephunneh(C) the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God(D) at Kadesh Barnea(E) about you and me.(F) I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea(G) to explore the land.(H) And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,(I)

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