Joshua 14:13

And Joshua blesses him, and gives Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And now, give this hill-country to me, of which YHWH spoke in that day, for you heard in that day, for Anakim [are] there, and great, fortified cities; if [it] so be [that] YHWH [is] with me, then I have dispossessed them, as YHWH has spoken.”

14therefore Hebron has been to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenezzite for an inheritance to this day, because that he was fully after YHWH, God of Israel;

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Cross References

Genesis 47:10And Jacob blesses Pharaoh, and goes out from before Pharaoh.

Joshua 15:13And to Caleb son of Jephunneh he has given a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah, according to the command of YHWH to Joshua, [even] the city of Arba, father of Anak—it [is] Hebron.

Joshua 21:12and they have given the field of the city and its villages to Caleb son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Judges 1:20And they give Hebron to Caleb, as Moses has spoken, and he dispossesses the three sons of Anak there.

1 Samuel 30:31and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David—he and his men—had gone up and down.

1 Chronicles 6:55and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its outskirts around it;

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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