Joshua 14:4
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 dwell in, with the open land about them for their cattle and for their substance. —
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
5As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Cross References
Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: 'for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.'
Genesis 48:6And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
Joshua 16:4And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
1 Chronicles 5:1And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel — for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, yet not so that he was to be reckoned in the genealogy as first-born.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 14:2-6
The Distribution of Canaan. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 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. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto… Read the whole commentary →