OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 14:12

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Now therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said.”

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Verse 12. Me. He trusts not in his own strength, but in the assistance of God, which he modestly acknowledges is not due to him. Calmet.—God’s promises are indeed sure on his part; but being conditional, and the will of man being free, he adds perhaps. Worthington.

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