Joshua 14:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 14

⁷Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

Joshua 14:7 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 13:6
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 13:16-20
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. …
Numbers 14:6-10
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: …
Numbers 13:26-33
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. …

Topics

Anakim Arba Caleb Duty Hebron Obedience Righteous Salvation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-15)

Before the lot was cast into the lap for the determining of the portions of the respective tribes, the particular portion of Caleb was assigned to him. He was now, except Joshua, not only the oldest man in all Israel, but was twenty years older than any of them, for all that were above twenty years old when he was forty were dead in the wilderness; it was fit therefore that this phoenix of his age…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-11. Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb ... said--This incident is recorded here because it occurred while the preparations were being made for casting the lots, which, it appears, were begun in Gilgal. The claim of Caleb to the mountains of Hebron as his personal and family possessions was founded on a solemn promise of Moses, forty-five years before (Nu 14:24; De 1…