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Deuteronomy 1:36

in Deuteronomy 1

except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.

KJV

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.

This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Save Caleb - Under whom Josh. is comprehended, though not here expressed, because he was not now to be one of the people, but to be set over them as a chief governor.

This site's exposition

And the Lord heard the voice of your words

on Deuteronomy 1:34-36

The sentence is sworn rather than merely spoken, and it falls on this evil generation, the adults numbered at Numbers 14:29. Numbers 14:30 excepts Caleb and Joshua together by name. Verse 36 excepts Caleb alone and brings Joshua in at verse 38 in a different office, so the two passages divide the same material differently and both stand. The land that he hath trodden upon is the promise Caleb claims for himself at eighty-five years old in Joshua 14:9-12, and the reason given here is that he wholly followed the LORD.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Save Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus they could not enter in because of unbelief. It was not the breach of any of the commands of the law that shut them out of Canaan, no, not the golden calf, but their disbelief of that promise which was typical of gospel grace, to signify that no sin will ruin us but unbelief, which is a sin against the remedy.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth--In consequence of this aggravated offense (unbelief followed by open rebellion), the Israelites were doomed, in the righteous judgment of God, to a life of wandering in that dreary wilderness till the whole adult generation had disappeared by death.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Caleb - wholly followed the Lord - See on Num 14:24 (note).

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • זֽוּלָתִ֞יexcept

    zulatiH2108

  • כָּלֵ֤בCaleb

    kalevH3612

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יְפֻנֶּה֙Jephunneh

    yefunehH3312

  • ה֣וּאhe

    hu'H19311879 times

  • יִרְאֶ֔נָּהhe will see it

    yirenahH72001300 times

  • וְלֽוֹ־and to him

    velov-

  • אֶתֵּ֧ןI will give

    ʾetenH54142011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָאָ֛רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • דָּֽרַךְ־he has trodden

    darakh-H186962 times

  • בָּ֖הּon it

    bah

  • וּלְבָנָ֑יוand to sons his

    ulevanavH11214930 times

  • יַ֕עַןbecause

    yaanH3282

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רthat

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • מִלֵּ֖אhe filled

    mile'H4390

  • אַחֲרֵ֥יafter

    ʾachareiH310715 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 13:30

    Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:24

      But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Romans 8:31

      What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

    • Philippians 4:13

      I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

    • Psalms 60:12

      With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

  • Through

    Numbers 14:24

    But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:6–9

      Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 14:6–14

      Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about…

    • Numbers 32:11–12

      ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac,…

  • Through

    Numbers 13:6

    from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:30

      Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.