E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 14:10
behold. Figure of speech Asterisms . App-6 . forty and five. See note on App-50 . (p. 53). Lo . Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . read more
behold. Figure of speech Asterisms . App-6 . forty and five. See note on App-50 . (p. 53). Lo . Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . read more
Anakims. See note on Numbers 13:22 .Deuteronomy 1:28 , and App-23 and App-25 . read more
Hebron . . . became. Compare Joshua 21:12 . read more
"Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Jehovah spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land: and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed... read more
"And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, Lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go in and out and to come in. Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof Jehovah spake in that day; for thou... read more
"And Joshua blessed him; and gave Hebron unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh unto this day; because that he wholly followed Jehovah, the God of Israel. Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.""And Joshua blessed him ..." (Joshua 14:13). These words show the endorsement by Joshua of all that Caleb had claimed,... read more
Ver. 6. Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal— Or, Now the children of Judah had come, &c. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite— See Numbers 32:12. read more
Ver. 7. I brought him word again, as it was in mine heart— Sincerely, without a desire to flatter, or fear to displease him. read more
Ver. 8. I wholly followed the Lord my God— The Hebrew literally is, I filled after the Lord my God: Words, the energy of which is very well rendered in our version; they give the idea of a traveller, who, attentive to the following of his guide, so treads in his steps, as to leave hardly any void space betwixt his guide and him, and continually fills up the traces of his feet. See Poole's Synopsis. read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 14:9
Moses sware. Compare Deuteronomy 1:34 , Deuteronomy 1:36 (compare Judges 1:20 ). read more