circa 1406–1380 BC
Conquest of Canaan
Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, defeating the Canaanite kingdoms one by one.
- Joshua 13:23c. 1444 BC
And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
- Joshua 13:24c. 1444 BC
And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
- Joshua 13:25c. 1444 BC
And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
- Joshua 13:26c. 1444 BC
And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
- Joshua 13:27c. 1444 BC
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 13:28c. 1444 BC
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
- Joshua 13:29c. 1444 BC
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.
- Joshua 13:30c. 1444 BC
And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
- Joshua 13:31c. 1444 BC
And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
- Joshua 13:32c. 1444 BC
These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
- Joshua 13:33c. 1444 BC
But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
- Joshua 14:1c. 1444 BC
¶ And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
- Joshua 14:2c. 1444 BC
By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
- Joshua 14:3c. 1444 BC
For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
- Joshua 14:4c. 1444 BC
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
- Joshua 14:5c. 1444 BC
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
- Joshua 14:6c. 1444 BC
¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
- Joshua 14:7c. 1444 BC
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
- Joshua 14:8c. 1444 BC
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
- Joshua 14:9c. 1444 BC
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
- Joshua 14:10c. 1444 BC
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
- Joshua 14:11c. 1444 BC
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
- Joshua 14:12c. 1444 BC
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
- Joshua 14:13c. 1444 BC
And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
- Joshua 14:14c. 1444 BC
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.