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Josué 14

ARC · Chapter 14/24

1Isto pois é o que os filhos de Israel tiveram em herança na terra de Canaan: o que Eleazar, o sacerdote, e Josué, filho de Nun, e os Cabeças dos paes das tribus dos filhos de Israel lhes fizeram repartir,

2Por sorte da sua herança, come o Senhor ordenara, pelo ministerio de Moysés, ácerca das nove tribus e da meia tribu.

3Porquanto ás duas tribus e á meia tribu já deu Moysés herança d'além do Jordão: mas aos levitas não tinha dado herança entre elles.

4Porque os filhos de José foram duas tribus, Manasseh e Ephraim: e aos levitas não deram herança na terra, senão cidades em que habitassem, e os seus arrabaldes para seu gado e para sua possessão.

5Como o Senhor ordenara a Moysés, assim fizeram os filhos d'Israel, e repartiram a terra.

6Então os filhos de Judah chegaram a Josué em Gilgal; e Caleb, filho de Jefoné o kenezeo, lhe disse: Tu sabes a palavra que o Senhor fallou a Moysés, homem de Deus, em Cades-barnea, por causa de mim e de ti.

7Da edade de quarenta annos era eu, quando Moysés, servo do Senhor, me enviou de Cades-barnea a espiar a terra: e eu lhe trouxe resposta, como sentia no meu coração:

8Mas meus irmãos, que subiram comigo, fizeram derreter o coração do povo: eu porém perseverei em seguir ao Senhor meu Deus.

9Então Moysés n'aquelle dia jurou, dizendo: Certamente a terra que pisou o teu pé será tua, e de teus filhos, em herança perpetuamente; pois perseveraste em seguir ao Senhor meu Deus

10E agora eis-que o Senhor me conservou em vida, como disse; quarenta e cinco annos ha agora, desde que o Senhor fallou esta palavra a Moysés, andando Israel ainda no deserto: e agora eis-que já hoje sou de edade de oitenta e cinco annos.

11E ainda hoje estou tão forte como no dia em que Moysés me enviou; qual a minha força então era, tal é agora a minha força, para a guerra, e para sair e para entrar.

12Agora pois dá-me este monte de que o Senhor fallou aquelle dia: pois n'aquelle dia tu ouviste que os enakins estão ali, e grandes e fortes cidades ha ali: porventura o Senhor será comigo, para os expellir, como o Senhor disse.

13E Josué o abençoou, e deu a Caleb, filho de Jefoné, a Hebron em herança.

14Portanto Hebron foi de Caleb, filho de Jefoné o kenezeo, em herança até ao dia d'hoje: porquanto perseverara em seguir ao Senhor Deus d'Israel.

15E era d'antes o nome d'Hebron Kiriath-arba, porque Arba foi um grande homem entre os anekins. E a terra repousou da guerra.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Caleb, at 85 years old, asks Joshua for the hill country of Hebron, fulfilling the promise made 45 years earlier for his faithfulness in spying out the land.

Explanation

Caleb was one of the twelve spies sent by Moses decades earlier, but the only one besides Joshua who brought back a report of faith rather than fear in the face of the giants of Canaan. His declaration at 85 years old - 'I am as strong this day as I was on the day Moses sent me' - is a remarkable testimony of vigor sustained by faithfulness to God over a lifetime of waiting. He asks not for easy land but for the very region of the Anakim giants, showing that the faith he held decades earlier remained intact in old age. The application is clear: God's promises have no expiration date, even if they take a whole lifetime to be fulfilled.

Fun facts

  • Hebron, the city Caleb receives, had previously been called Kiriath-arba ('city of Arba'), named after one of the greatest Anakim warriors of the region.
  • Caleb belonged to the tribe of Judah by adoption/covenant, being originally of Kenizzite lineage, a people associated with Edom - a reminder that faithful foreigners were fully incorporated into God's people.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Josué 14:1Now the account turns to telling how the land west of the Jordan was distributed, with Eleazar and Joshua leading the process together with the heads of families of each tribe.
  2. Josué 14:2The division is made by lot, exactly as God had commanded through Moses, among the nine and a half tribes that still had no land.
  3. Josué 14:3The text recalls that Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh had already received land on the other side of the Jordan, and that the Levites still had no territory of their own.
  4. Josué 14:4Since Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, they count as two separate tribes; the Levites, instead of land, receive only cities to live in with pasturelands around them.
  5. Josué 14:5The division follows exactly the instructions God had given Moses, without deviation.
  6. Josué 14:6Before the general division begins, Caleb comes to Joshua at Gilgal to claim an old promise, made back in the time of Moses.
  7. Josué 14:7Caleb recalls that he was forty years old when he was one of the spies sent to scout out the promised land, and that he gave a faithful report at the time.
  8. Josué 14:8Unlike the other spies, who discouraged the people with fear, Caleb kept his confidence in God even as a lone voice.
  9. Josué 14:9The promise Moses made to Caleb at Kadesh-barnea, right after the mission of the twelve spies, is fulfilled only here, forty-five years later. Caleb cites the date precisely because he spent his whole life waiting for this specific piece of land.
  10. Josué 14:10Caleb points out that forty-five years have already passed since that promise, and that he is now eighty-five years old, but God has kept him alive until this moment.
  11. Josué 14:11Even at his advanced age, Caleb insists he still has the same strength he had decades earlier, ready to fight and to conquer.
  12. Josué 14:12At eighty-five, Caleb asks for exactly the hill country where the Anakim live, described elsewhere as giants. He does not choose the easiest part of the inheritance, he asks for the most contested one, as proof that he still trusts the same promise that sustained him since his youth.
  13. Josué 14:13Joshua grants the request, blesses Caleb, and gives him the city of Hebron as his personal inheritance.
  14. Josué 14:14Hebron is recorded as belonging to Caleb because of his faithfulness to God, unlike most of the generation that doubted.
  15. Josué 14:15Hebron’s old name was Kirjath-arba, named after one of the leaders of the Anakim, the people of giants who lived there before.

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