Joshua 14:12 - John Wesley's Notes

Joshua 14:12

10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^aalive, ^bas He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel¹ wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

11 ^aAs yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both ^bfor going out and for coming in.

12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^athe Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^bIt may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^cI shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

13 And Joshua ^ablessed him, ^band gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

14 ^aHebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he ^bwholly followed the Lord God of Israel.

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Joshua 14:12

This mountain - That is, this mountainous country. He names the country rather than the cities, because the cities were given to the Levites, Joshua 21:11, Joshua 21:13. Thou heardest - Didst understand, both by the reports of others, and by thy own observation. Hearing, the sense by which we get knowledge, is often put for knowing or understanding. If the Lord will be with me - A modest and pious expression, signifying both the absolute necessity of God's help, and his godly fear, lest God for his sins should deny his assistance to him; for although he was well assured in general, that God would crown his people with success in this war, yet he might doubt of his particular success in this or that enterprize. To drive them out - Out of their fastnesses where they yet remain, Caleb desires this difficult work as a testimony of his own faith, and as a motive to quicken his brethren to the like attempts.

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