Joshua 15:14
Caleb drove out from there three Anakites– Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.
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- Judg 1:10 : 10 The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron.(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
- Judg 1:20 : 20 Caleb received Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.
- Josh 11:21 : 21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country– from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. Joshua annihilated them and their cities.
- Num 13:22-23 : 22 When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living.(Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.
- Num 13:33 : 33 We even saw the Nephilim there(the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”
- Josh 10:36-37 : 36 Joshua and all Israel marched up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it. 37 They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.
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20Caleb received Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.
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13Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba(that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the LORD’s instructions to Joshua.(Arba was the father of Anak.)
- Josh 14:12-154 verses79%
12Now, assign me this hill country which the LORD promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But, assuming the LORD is with me, I will conquer them, as the LORD promised.”
13Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.
14So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day because he remained loyal to the LORD God of Israel.
15(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.
- Josh 15:15-173 verses78%
15From there he attacked the people of Debir.(Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)
16Caleb said,“To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife.”
17When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Achsah his daughter to him as a wife.
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22When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living.(Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Judg 1:9-135 verses76%
9Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the foothills.
10The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron.(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
11From there they attacked the people of Debir.(Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)
12Caleb said,“To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife.”
13When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it, Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.
- Josh 11:21-222 verses75%
21At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country– from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. Joshua annihilated them and their cities.
22No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
- Josh 21:11-122 verses74%
11They assigned them Kiriath Arba(Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.
12(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)
- 1 Chr 6:55-562 verses73%
55They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.
56(But the city’s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)
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6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
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6The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him,“You know what the LORD said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea.
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19These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
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36The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.”
- Num 13:28-303 verses71%
28But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
30Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying,“Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it.”
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2They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said,“Who is able to resist the Anakites?”
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18Caleb’s Descendants Caleb son of Hezron fathered sons by his wife Azubah(also known as Jerioth). Her sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
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15The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh:Iru, Elah, and Naam.The son of Elah:Kenaz.
- Num 14:24-252 verses70%
24Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully– I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.
25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
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21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
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21They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.
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28What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”
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12except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.’
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42More of Caleb’s Descendants The sons of Caleb, Jerahmeel’s brother:His firstborn Mesha, the father of Ziph, and his second son Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
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50Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
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65For the LORD had said of them,“They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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13Beriah, and Shema. They were leaders of the families living in Aijalon and chased out the inhabitants of Gath.
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5In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
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14as well as the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
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3Canaanites came from the east and west; Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites from the hill country; and Hivites from below Hermon in the area of Mizpah.
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23Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
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38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
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49She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah and Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.