The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
The Division Of the Land.
1rssoN In.hua Nv.

4 m And these are the 1nneriednces
which the children of Israel took IN the
land OF Canaan. which Eleazar the
priest. and Joshua the son Of Nun, and
the heads of the fathers houses OF the
tribes of the children Of Israel distrio-
uted unto them
cg By the lot Of their inheritance, as
| the Lord commanded by the hand OF
Moses. for the nine tribes. and for the
| half tribe.
| cO For Moses had given the inheri-
tance of the two tribes and the half tribe
| beyond Jordan; but unto the Levites he
gave none inheritance among them
| "a For the children of Joseph were
| two tribes. Manasseh and Ephraim; and
| they gave no portion unto the Levites IN
! the land, save cities to dwen IN, Win
! the suburbs thereof Tor tner caatie anu
X As the Lord commanded Moses, 50
the children of Israel did, and they d.
| vided the land.
f(6) Then the children of judah drew
| nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal; ana Calco the
| son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said upon
him, Thou knowest the thing thar the
Lord spake unto Moses the man OF Goa
concerning me and concerning thee In
kaQeSh-Darned -.
n Forty years old was when Moses
| the servant of the Lord sent me from
Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and
I brought him word again as 1t was IN
mine heart
81 Nevertheless my brethren that went
| up with me made the heart OF the people
melt: but 1 wholly followed the LORD my
God.
80 And Moses sware on that day, say
ing, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath
trodden shall be an inheritance to thee
and to thv children for ever. because thou
hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
QO And now, behold. the Lord hath
kept me alive as he spake, these forty
and five years, from the time that the
Lord spake this word unto Moses. while
Israel walked in the wilderness; and now.
10, am this day fourscoTe and hVe years.
old
Cd As yet / am as strong this day
as was in the day that Moses sent me;
as my strength was then, even so Is my
strength now, for war. and to 60 out
and to come in.
Q9 Now therefore give me this noun
tain, whereof the LORD srake In that day;
for thou heardest in that day now the
Anakim were there, and cities great aud
fenced; it may be that the Lord will be
with me, and / shall drive them out. as
the Lord spake.
u0 And Joshua blessed him; and he
gave Hebron unto Caleb the son OF
Jephunneh for an inheritance.
QD Therefore Hebron became the in
heritance OF Caleb the son of Jeuhun-
neh the KeniZzite, unto this day; because
that he wholly followed the Lord. the
God of Israel.
Q0 Now the name of Hebron before
time was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was
q
And the land had rest from war.
The Story.
In this lesson We have the account OF
first events in the division OF the land
among the tribes. II forms part of an
important division of the book of Joshua
which commences in chapter xiii and
runs on through chapter xii In these
chapters we have an account of how the
whole territory was divided between the
tribes.
First there were the portions allotted
by Moses on the east OF Jordan to Reu-
ben, Cad, and the half tribe of Aanasseh.
Then we have the division on the west
of Jordan, within the land proper; first
the portion of Judah. then that Of Joseph.
including the possession OF Ephraim and
the half tribe of Manasseh- Then follow
the portions Of the other seven tribes In
the following order: Benjamin, Simeon,
Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali. Dan.
Immediately after this a brief para
graph records the setting apart of a spe-
cial portion to Joshua Finally We nave
the account of the appointment of the
cities OF refuge, and the other Levipcal
cities.
In the account of the portion aI1tted
to Judah occurs the story of the special
grant made to Caleb. in response to his
request. After forty-fve years he claimed
the fulhlment of the promise made to
him when he stood by the side Of Joshua,
and testified to his confidence in the
ability of the people in whom Jehovah
delighted, to possess the land of the Di-
vine appointment. The first impression
made upon the mind may be that there
was a touch of pride and Of self-seeking
in the request of Caleb. That, however,
vanishes Immediately when we carefully
observe what 1t was that he really asked.
He was of the tribe Of judah, and when
the portion of Judah was allotted ne at
once claimed the most dangerous and
difficult area in the inheritance OF his
tribe He asked that he might be grant,
ed the territory Of the Anakim, whom he
undertook to dispossess in the strength
Of Jehovah.
II was in view of the particular nature
Of his request that Joshua blessed him,
and at once gave him what he asked
The Teaching.
The teaching Of our lesson gathers
about the person of this man, Caleb, in
whom we see the principle Of faith oper-
ating in full and splendid strength. Going
back to the story of the sending Of the
spies in the first place, we find his quiet
and calm declaration in answer to the
objection Of the spies, Let us go up at
once, and possess It: for We are able to
overcome it, plumbers Kill, 800. The
answer of Jehovah to that word of faith
came when, uttering the sentence upon
the men who had dishonored His name,
He said, MY servant Caleb. because he
had another spirit with him, and nath
followed Me fully, him will bring into
the land whereinto he went; and his seei
shall possess it, plumbers xiv:2D. Thus,
upon the basis of his faith, God made a
special covenant with him.
afterward. Caleb claimed the fulfilment
Of that covenant. and he did SO fret by
declaring that God had already been
kept me alive, as He spake these forty
this day fourscore and fve years old"
Building his confidence, therefore, upon
the word of God, and his experience of
was as strong as he had been when the
covenant was made with him; he asked
that he might have this dificuIt part
granted to him, and that in order that he
might still prove the faithfulness of
with me, and shall drive them out, as
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