Joshua 15:14

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Caleb expelled from there the three descendants of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the offspring of Anak.

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  • Judg 1:10 : 10 Judah also attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
  • Judg 1:20 : 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised, and Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from it.
  • Josh 11:21 : 21 At that time Joshua came and destroyed the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, all the hill country of Judah, and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them and their cities to destruction.
  • Num 13:22-23 : 22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch with a single cluster of grapes. They carried it on a pole between two of them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
  • Num 13:33 : 33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim. To ourselves, we seemed like grasshoppers, and we seemed the same to them."
  • Josh 10:36-37 : 36 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it. 37 They captured it and struck it down with the edge of the sword, including its king, its villages, and every person in it. He left no survivors, just as he had done to Eglon. He utterly destroyed the city and everyone in it.

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  • Judg 1:20
    88%

    20They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised, and Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from it.

  • Josh 15:13
    81%

    13To Caleb son of Jephunneh, he was given a portion among the descendants of Judah, based on the Lord’s command to Joshua, the city of Arba (father of Anak), which is Hebron.

  • Josh 14:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12So now give me this hill country the LORD promised me on that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakim are there and their cities are large and fortified. Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out as the LORD said.

    13Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

    14So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as his inheritance to this day because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

    15Previously, Hebron had been called Kiriath Arba, named after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

  • Josh 15:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15From there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir, which was formerly called Kiriath-sepher.

    16Caleb said, 'Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him my daughter Achsah as his wife.'

    17Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah as his wife.

  • Num 13:22
    77%

    22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Judg 1:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9Afterward, the men of Judah went down to fight the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowland.

    10Judah also attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11From there, they went against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

    12Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher."

    13Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it, and Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.

  • Josh 11:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21At that time Joshua came and destroyed the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, all the hill country of Judah, and all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them and their cities to destruction.

    22No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites. Only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any remain.

  • Josh 21:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasture lands. Arba was the ancestor of the Anakites.

    12However, the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

  • 1 Chr 6:55-56
    2 verses
    73%

    55From half the tribe of Manasseh, they gave Aner with its pasturelands and Bileam with its pasturelands for the remaining families of the Kohathites.

    56To the sons of Gershom, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands.

  • Num 13:6
    72%

    6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

  • Josh 14:6
    72%

    6The descendants of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, 'You know the word the LORD spoke to Moses, the man of God, about you and me in Kadesh Barnea.'

  • Num 34:19
    72%

    19These are the names of the leaders: From the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.

  • Deut 1:36
    71%

    36except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he walked, because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD.

  • Num 13:28-30
    3 verses
    71%

    28However, the people who live there are strong, and the cities are large and very fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

    29The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.

    30Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

  • Deut 9:2
    70%

    2The people are great and tall—the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know and about whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

  • 1 Chr 2:18
    70%

    18Caleb son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and Jerioth. Her sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

  • 1 Chr 4:15
    70%

    15The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, were Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah was Kenaz.

  • Num 14:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

    25The Amalekites and Canaanites are dwelling in the valley. Tomorrow, turn around and set out toward the wilderness along the way of the Red Sea.

  • Gen 15:21
    70%

    21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

  • Deut 2:21
    70%

    21They were a great and numerous people, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

  • Deut 1:28
    69%

    28Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us by saying, 'The people are larger and taller than we are, the cities are great and fortified up to the heavens, and we even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.'

  • Num 32:12
    68%

    12except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they have fully followed the Lord.'

  • 1 Chr 2:42
    68%

    42The sons of Caleb, brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.

  • Josh 15:50
    68%

    50Anab, Eshtemoh, and Anim.

  • Num 26:65
    68%

    65For the Lord had said of them, 'They will surely die in the wilderness.' Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

  • 1 Chr 8:13
    68%

    13Also Beriah and Shema, who were heads of the families living in Aijalon. They drove out the inhabitants of Gath.

  • Gen 14:5
    67%

    5In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim,

  • 1 Chr 1:14
    67%

    14And also the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite.

  • Josh 11:3
    67%

    3These included the Canaanites in the east and west, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

  • Josh 15:23
    67%

    23Kedesh, Hazor, and Ithnan.

  • Num 14:38
    67%

    38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, survived.

  • 1 Chr 2:49
    67%

    49She also bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.