translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “These are [the lands] which the sons of Israel received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes assigned as an inheritance to the sons of Israel.”


text: Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord had commanded by Moses, to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.”


text: Or “assigned an inheritance.”


text: Or “no inheritance.”


text: The Hebrew text adds, “in their midst.”


text: Heb “and they did not assign a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities [in which] to live and their pastures for their cattle and property.”


text: Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”


text: Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.” sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30 .


text: Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”


text: Heb “brothers.”


text: Heb “went up with.”


text: Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”


text: Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord .


text: Heb “swore an oath.”


text: Heb “on which your foot has walked.”


text: Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”


text: Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”


text: Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”


text: Or “will dispossess.”


text: Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”


text: Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”


text: Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”