1-2. Here are the inheritance allotments that the People of Israel received in the land of Canaan. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the family clans made the allotments. Each inheritance was assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, just as God had commanded Moses.
5. The People of Israel followed through exactly as God had commanded Moses. They apportioned the land.
13-14. Joshua blessed him. He gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite still today, because he gave himself totally to God, the God of Israel.
15. The name of Hebron used to be Kiriath Arba, named after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.And the land had rest from war.