Joshua 14:12

And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou heardest this word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

In Context

11I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

13And Joshua blessed him, and gave Chebron to Chaleb the son of Jephone the son of Kenez for an inheritance.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.

Numbers 14:9Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not.

Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Thou goest this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;

Joshua 11:21And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the + 11:21 Heb. הר ישראל probably הר for דור a mountain, not a generation.race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.

Judges 1:20And they gave Chebron to Chaleb, as Moses said; and thence he inherited the three cities of the children of Enac.

2 Chronicles 14:11And the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Juda; and the Ethiopians fled.

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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