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Joshua 14: Caleb Wholly Followed Yahweh

The land west of the Jordan is divided by lot. Caleb comes to Joshua at Gilgal. He reminds Joshua that forty-five years earlier, at forty years old, he was sent to spy out the land and brought back word as it was in his heart. Others made the people's hearts melt, but Caleb wholly followed Yahweh. Moses promised him the land where he walked. Now eighty-five and still strong, Caleb asks for the hill country where the Anakim live. Joshua blesses him and gives him Hebron, because he followed Yahweh wholeheartedly.

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  1. 1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 “Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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Follow God With All Your Heart

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Bible Verse

“Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.”

Joshua 14:8 (WEB)

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Thank You, God, for making me!

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