Caleb's Request and Inheritance

Joshua 14

6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the r Kenizzite said to him, "You know s what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord t sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But u my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, v 'Surely the land w on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.' 10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, x just as he said, these y forty-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 y eighty-five years old. 11 z I 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 a for 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 b Anakim 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 c blessed him, and he gave d Hebron 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, e because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 f Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. 1 (Arba 2 was the greatest man among the Anakim.) g And the land had rest from war.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 14:13 - 14
    Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
    Numbers 32:12
    None except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.
    Joshua 15:17
    And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
    Deuteronomy 1:38
    Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
    Numbers 13:16
    These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
    Numbers 13:30
    But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.
    Numbers 14:6 - 9
    And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."
    Numbers 13:31 - 33
    Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 1:3
    Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
  8. Cross References
    Joshua 14:7
    I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 14:7
    I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 34:7
    Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:2
    And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 13:28
    However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
    Numbers 13:33
    And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.
  13. Cross References
    Joshua 22:6
    So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
  14. Cross References
    Joshua 10:36 - 37
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it
    Joshua 15:13 - 14
    According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
    Joshua 21:11 - 12
    They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
    Judges 1:20
    And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.
    1 Chronicles 6:55 - 56
    To them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.
  15. Cross References
    Joshua 14:8 - 9
    But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
  16. Cross References
    Joshua 14:13
    Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
    Genesis 23:2
    And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
    Genesis 35:27
    And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
    Judges 1:10
    And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
    Joshua 10:36
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it
  17. Cross References
    Joshua 11:23
    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
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