Joshua 15:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Caleb the son of Jephunneh received a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, namely the city of Arba the father of Anak, which is Hebron.

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  • Num 13:30 : 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.
  • Num 14:23-24 : 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 24 But 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 1:34-36 : 34 And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 35 Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 36 Except 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.
  • Josh 14:6-9 : 6 Then 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. 7 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. 8 Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And 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. 10 And 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. 11 Yet 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. 12 Now 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. 13 And Joshua blessed him and gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron as an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

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  • Josh 14:12-15
    4 verses
    87%

    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.

    13And Joshua blessed him and gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron as an inheritance.

    14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

    15And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

  • Josh 21:11-13
    3 verses
    85%

    11And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs around it.

    12But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

    13Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with its suburbs,

  • Josh 15:14-17
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    81%

    14And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

    15And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir: the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.

    16And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjathsepher and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as a wife.

    17And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.

  • Judg 1:20
    80%

    20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses said, and he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.

  • 1 Chr 6:55-58
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    55And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its surrounding pasturelands.

    56But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

    57And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron the city of refuge, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their pasturelands,

    58And Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

  • Judg 1:9-13
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    9And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

    10And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron, (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba) and they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11And from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir; and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.

    12And Caleb said, Whoever strikes Kirjathsepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

    13And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

  • Num 13:6
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    6From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  • Josh 14:5-6
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    5As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

    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.

  • Deut 1:36
    74%

    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.

  • Josh 15:20
    73%

    20This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

  • Num 34:19
    73%

    19And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  • Josh 20:7
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    7And they designated Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 2:18
    72%

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

  • Josh 15:12
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    12And the west border was to the Great Sea and its coast. This is the boundary of the children of Judah all around according to their families.

  • Josh 15:54-55
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    71%

    54Humtah, Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, Zior; nine cities with their villages:

    55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

  • Josh 14:1
    71%

    1And these are the lands which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed as inheritance to them.

  • Neh 11:25
    71%

    25And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,

  • Josh 19:50
    71%

    50According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt there.

  • 2 Chr 11:10
    70%

    10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

  • 1 Chr 2:42
    69%

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

  • Josh 11:21
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    21And at that time Joshua came, and cut off the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  • Judg 1:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15And she said to him, Give me a blessing, for you have given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

    16And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

  • Num 13:22
    68%

    22And they ascended by the south and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Num 34:29
    68%

    29These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 13:30
    68%

    30And 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.

  • Gen 35:27
    68%

    27And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, to the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac lived.