Joshua 14:13

So Joshua blessed Caleb and granted him ownership of Hebron.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12So give me the hill country that the Lord spoke about. You heard at that time about the descendants of Anak who lived there in large, fortified towns. If the Lord is with me I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

14So Hebron belonged to Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, from that day to this because he had faithfully followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving him.

Joshua 15:13The Lord had instructed Joshua to allocate some land in Judah's territory to Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and so he was given the town of Kiriath-arba, or Hebron. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

Joshua 21:12But the more distant fields from the town and the villages had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh to own.

Judges 1:20As Moses had stipulated, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove out from it the descendants of three sons of Anak.

1 Samuel 30:31Hebron—all the places David and his men had gone to.

1 Chronicles 6:55They received Hebron in Judah together with its surrounding pasturelands.

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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