Joshua 14:8 KJV — MannaFest

Joshua 14:8

Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

KJV

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ASV

Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.

WEB

Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

YLT

and my brethren who have gone up with me have caused the heart of the people to melt, and I have been fully after Jehovah my God;

DBT

And my brethren that had gone up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah myGod.

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Old Testament

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Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period

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Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 13:31
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Deuteronomy 1:36
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.
Joshua 14:14
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

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The claim of Caleb to the mountains of Hebron as his personal and family possessions was founded on a solemn promise of Moses, forty-five years before (Nu 14:24;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), and how pernicious the consequences of it were was very well known. It adds much to the praise of following God if we adhere to him when others desert and decline from him. Caleb needed not to mention particularly Joshua's conduct in this matter; it was sufficiently known, and he would not seem to flatter him; it was enough to say (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Therefore it was not vain glory in him to speak it: no more than it is for those, who have God's spirit witnessing with their spirits, that they are the children of God, humbly and thankfully to tell others, for their encouragement, what God hath done for their souls.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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JOS 14:8NUM 14:24 JOS 14:6-14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 14:8NUM 14:24 NUM 14:6-9
JOS 14:8REV 14:4 REV 3:4
JOS 14:8REV 14:4 2CO 11:2
JOS 14:8NUM 14:24 NUM 32:11-12
JOS 14:8REV 14:4 JAS 1:18
JOS 14:8NUM 13:31 DEU 1:28
JOS 14:8NUM 14:24 DEU 1:36

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