Joshua 14:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

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  • Num 13:6 : 6 From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
  • Num 13:16-20 : 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 See the land, how it is; and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they dwell in, whether in tent camps or fortified cities; 20 And what the land is, whether it is rich or poor, whether there is wood in it, or not. Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now was the time of the first ripe grapes.
  • Num 13:26-33 : 26 And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan. 30 And Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. 32 And they gave a bad report of the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, descendants of the giants; and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.
  • Num 14:6-9 : 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those that searched the land, tore their clothes: 7 And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

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  • Josh 14:6
    81%

    6Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadeshbarnea.

  • Josh 14:8-12
    5 verses
    79%

    8Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

    9And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land where your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your children's forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.

    10And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.

    11Yet I am as strong this day as I was the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.

    12Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fortified; if so the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

  • Deut 2:14
    75%

    14And the time we took to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from the camp, as the LORD swore to them.

  • Num 14:36-39
    4 verses
    74%

    36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

    37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

    38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

    39And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • Num 32:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

    9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

  • Num 14:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those that searched the land, tore their clothes:

    7And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceedingly good land.

  • Num 14:24
    73%

    24But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where he went; and his offspring shall possess it.

  • Deut 1:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I will give the land he has trodden upon, because he has fully followed the LORD.

    37Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, You also shall not go in there.

  • Num 32:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

    12Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the LORD.

  • Num 14:29-31
    3 verses
    72%

    29Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

    30Surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

    31But your little ones, which you said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

  • Num 26:65
    72%

    65For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Deut 1:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

    23And the plan pleased me well: so I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe:

    24And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and explored it.

  • Deut 31:2
    71%

    2And he said to them, I am one hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.

  • Num 14:34
    71%

    34After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.

  • Heb 3:9
    71%

    9When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

  • Josh 5:6
    71%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Amos 2:10
    70%

    10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Acts 7:36
    70%

    36He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Num 13:25
    70%

    25And they returned from exploring the land after forty days.

  • Ps 95:10
    70%

    10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Num 13:17
    70%

    17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

  • Acts 7:23
    70%

    23And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:23
    69%

    23And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.

  • Num 26:4
    69%

    4Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who came out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 7:7
    69%

    7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

  • Deut 9:23
    69%

    23Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.

  • Deut 1:3
    69%

    3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them;

  • Num 14:22
    69%

    22Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

  • Josh 13:1
    69%

    1Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

  • Num 13:2
    68%

    2Send men that they may explore the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.

  • Deut 29:5
    68%

    5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your feet.