OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 14:6

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Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

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Verse 6. Jephone was the father of Caleb. Esron and Cenez probably some of his ancestors, 1 Chronicles 2:18. Numbers 33:12. What Caleb here asserts, must have been delivered by word of mouth, in the hearing of the people. Deuteronomy 1:36. Moses declared not that Caleb was to have the whole country but that he should enter into it, and possess the environs of Hebron. Calmet.

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