Joshua 14:13

And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

In Context

12Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if so be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised me.

14And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the God of Israel.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:10And blessing the king, he went out.

Joshua 15:13But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac. which is Hebron.

Joshua 21:12But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb the son of Jephone for his possession.

Judges 1:20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac.

1 Samuel 30:31And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those places, in which David had abode with his men.

1 Chronicles 6:55And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:

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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