Joshua 14:9

And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.

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In The King James Version

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

In Context

8My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.

10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

Joshua 1:3Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.

Psalms 37:9For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 14:7-15

Caleb's Request. ( b. c. 1444.) 6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly… Read the whole commentary →

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