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Joshua 14:4-14

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4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, 1Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except * cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.
5 Thus the sons of Israel did just 2as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
6 Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and 3Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word which the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning * you and me in Kadesh-barnea.
7 "I was forty years old when 4Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart.
8 "Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but 5I followed the LORD my God fully.
9 "So Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely * 6the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever *, because you have followed the LORD my God fully.'
10 "Now behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five * years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.
11 "7I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for 8going out and coming in.
12 "Now then, give me this hill country about which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that 9Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out as the LORD has spoken."
13 So Joshua 10blessed him and 11gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
14 Therefore *, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because * he followed the LORD God of Israel fully.
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Joshua 14:4-14 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 48:1, 5; Numbers 26:28; 2 Chronicles 30:1
  • 2. Numbers 35:1; Joshua 21:2
  • 3. Numbers 13:6, 30; Numbers 14:6, 24, 30
  • 4. Numbers 13:1-31
  • 5. Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36
  • 6. Deuteronomy 1:36
  • 7. Deuteronomy 34:7
  • 8. Deuteronomy 31:2
  • 9. Numbers 13:33
  • 10. Joshua 22:6
  • 11. Judges 1:20; 1 Chronicles 6:55

Footnotes 3

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