Joshua 14:15

World English Bible (2000)

Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 11:23 : 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
  • Gen 23:2 : 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
  • Josh 15:13 : 13 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
  • Judg 3:11 : 11 The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
  • Judg 3:30 : 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
  • Judg 5:31 : 31 "So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.
  • Judg 8:28 : 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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    13 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

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

    15 He went up against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.

    16 Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."

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    11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.

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

    13 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah with its suburbs,

  • 78%

    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 spoke."

    13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

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

  • Judg 1:10-11
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    10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)

  • 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.

  • 54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

  • 6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

  • 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

  • 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • 68%

    55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it;

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

  • 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.

  • 10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

  • 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Gen 15:20-21
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    20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

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

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

  • 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, and in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,

  • 28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

  • 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

  • 9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

  • 25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor),

  • 14 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

  • 60 Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

  • 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

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

  • 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

  • 11 The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

  • 14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

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

  • 2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).