Joshua 14:10-15

10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, 1just as he said, these 2forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day 3eighty-five years old.
11 4I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and 5for going and coming.
12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the 6Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."
13 Then Joshua 7blessed him, and he gave 8Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, 9because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
15 10Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.[a] (Arba[b] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) 11And the land had rest from war.

Joshua 14:10-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 14

This chapter proceeds to give an account of the countries divided to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, Jos 14:1-5; but previous to that division relates the claim of Caleb to Hebron, through a promise made unto him by Moses forty five years ago, upon his report of the good land, whither he was sent a spy by him, Jos 14:6-12; and the grant which Joshua made of it to him, with his blessing, Jos 14:13-15.

Cross References 11

  • 1. Numbers 14:30
  • 2. [ver. 7]
  • 3. [ver. 7]
  • 4. [Deuteronomy 34:7]
  • 5. Deuteronomy 31:2
  • 6. Numbers 13:28, 33
  • 7. Joshua 22:6
  • 8. Joshua 10:36, 37; Joshua 15:13, 14; Joshua 21:11, 12; Judges 1:20; 1 Chronicles 6:55, 56
  • 9. ver. 8, 9
  • 10. ver. 13; Genesis 23:2; Genesis 35:27; Judges 1:10; See Joshua 10:36
  • 11. See Joshua 11:23

Footnotes 2

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