Joshua 14:4
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Menasseh and Ephraim; therefore they gave no portion unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their open spaces for their cattle and for their substance.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5As the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel, and so divided they the land.
Cross References
Genesis 41:52And the name of the second he called Ephraim; For God [said he] hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:6And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, after the name of their brothers shall they be called in their inheritance.
Joshua 16:4This did the children of Joseph, Menasseh and Ephraim, take as their inheritance.
1 Chronicles 5:1And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel—for he was the first-born; but, when the defiled his father's bed, was his birthright given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: so that the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the first-birth.
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 →