6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. …
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)Here we have, I. Orders given to send spies to search out the land of Canaan. It is here said, God directed Moses to send them ( Num. 13:1 ; 2 ), but it appears by the repetition of the story afterwards (Deut. 1:22) that the motion came originally from the people; they came to Moses, and said, We will send men before us ; and it was the fruit of their unbelief. They would not take God’s word that…
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