Quotes About Legacy

Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.

Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.

On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ëSurely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.í

still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.

Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

So Othniel son of Calebís brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah.

Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),

But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëLong ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechemís father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Josephís descendants.