Joshua 14:13-15

14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. ¹  14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ²  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel. 14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite. ³ ) Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 14:1

Judah’s Tribal Lands

14:1 The following is a record of the territory assigned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders. ⁴ 

Joshua 6:1

6:1 Now Jericho ⁵  was shut tightly ⁶  because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”

² tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

³ tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”

⁴ tn 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.”

⁵ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁶ tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”

⁷ tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”