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Numbers 32:12

in Numbers 32

not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah.

KJV

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.

This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite - It was Jephunneh that was the Kenezite, and not Caleb. Kenaz was probably the father of Jephunneh.

This site's exposition

was kindled the same time

on Numbers 32:10-12

The oath quoted here is the oath of Numbers 14:22-24 and 14:29-30, and Moses gives as its reason a phrase those verses used only of Caleb, that they have not wholly followed me. Caleb is called the Kenezite, and Kenaz is an Edomite name at Genesis 36:11 and 36:15, which raises a question about his ancestry the text never answers. Adam Clarke reads the title as belonging to Jephunneh rather than to Caleb, and others take Kenaz for a clan absorbed into Judah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war of invasion, or the effect of their leader's expostulation was to drive them from their original purpose, they now, in answer to his impressive appeal, declared it to be their sincere intention to co-operate with their brethren; but, if so, they ought to have been more explicit at first.
The Kenezite - Kenaz Gen 36:11 was the name of one of the “dukes of Edom:” but Israel and Edom were of kindred origin, and the use of similar names by the two peoples is not surprising.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • בִּלְתִּ֞יexcept

    biltiH1115112 times

  • כָּלֵ֤בCaleb

    kalevH361235 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • יְפֻנֶּה֙Jephunneh

    yefunehH331216 times

  • הַקְּנִזִּ֔יthe Kenizzite

    hakeniziH7074

  • וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַand Joshua

    vihoshua'H3091218 times

  • בִּן־[the] son of

    bin-H11214930 times

  • נ֑וּןNun

    nunH512630 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • מִלְא֖וּthey have filled

    miluH4390249 times

  • 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 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

    • 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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

    • 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,…

    • Deuteronomy 1:36

      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.”

    • Ephesians 6:6

      And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:65

    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:38

      Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Corinthians 10:5–6

      Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:65

      For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

About Numbers

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).