Joshua 14 – NIV & CCBT

New International Version

Joshua 14:1-15

Division of the Land West of the Jordan

1Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. 2Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses. 3Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, 4for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. 5So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Allotment for Caleb

6Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 9So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’14:9 Deut. 1:36

10“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

13Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. 14So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. 15(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)

Then the land had rest from war.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

約書亞記 14:1-15

約旦河西土地的分配

1以下是祭司以利亞撒的兒子約書亞以色列各支派的首領在迦南分給以色列人的產業, 2是照耶和華給摩西的指示,用抽籤的方式分給九個半支派的。 3摩西約旦河東已經把產業分給了呂便迦得支派和瑪拿西半個支派,只是沒有把產業分給利未人。 4約瑟的子孫已分為瑪拿西以法蓮兩個支派。利未人沒有分到地,但有城邑居住,還有城郊可以牧養牲畜,安置財物。 5以色列人照耶和華給摩西的指示分配這些土地。

迦勒分得希伯崙

6那時,猶大支派的人來到吉甲約書亞,其中有基尼洗耶孚尼的兒子迦勒。他對約書亞說:「你知道耶和華在加低斯·巴尼亞跟上帝的僕人摩西提到關於你和我的事。 7我四十歲那年,耶和華的僕人摩西加低斯·巴尼亞派我來偵察這地方,我如實稟告他。 8與我同去的弟兄的稟告令以色列人膽戰心驚,但我忠心地追隨我的上帝耶和華。 9所以,當日摩西就向我起誓,『你腳踏過的地方必永遠歸你和你的子孫作產業,因為你忠心地追隨我的上帝耶和華。』 10耶和華照祂的應許,讓我又活了四十五年,這些日子都是跟以色列人在曠野一起度過的。看!我現在已經八十五歲了, 11仍像當年摩西派我出去時那樣身強力壯,跟當年一樣能征善戰。 12現在,求你照耶和華當日向我應許的,把這山區賜給我。你親耳聽到那裡有亞衲人,他們的城池高大堅固。但如果耶和華與我同在,我必照著祂的應許把這些人趕走。」

13於是,約書亞便祝福耶孚尼的兒子迦勒,把希伯崙給他,作為他的產業。 14所以,希伯崙至今仍是基尼洗耶孚尼的兒子迦勒的產業,因為他忠心地追隨以色列的上帝耶和華。 15希伯崙從前名叫基列·亞巴,亞巴原是亞衲族中最偉大的人。從此,境內太平,沒有戰爭。