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Then the Land Had Rest from War

Date: Sep. 15, 2023

Passage

Joshua 14:6-15

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. 12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”

13 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel. 15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.

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Key Verse: Joshua 14:15b

15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.

Caleb came to Joshua and reminded him that Moses promised to give him an inheritance. Caleb told Joshua what Moses had said 45 years before, that the land that Caleb put his foot on would be his and his descendants’ inheritance. This was promised to Caleb because Caleb followed the Lord his God wholeheartedly, while all the other people had melted in fear because of the Annakites in the land.

When Caleb followed God wholeheartedly, the promise of God came to fruition. The hill country, which the Israelites had once feared they would not be able to enter, was conquered. As promised by God through Moses, Caleb was claiming the right to receive that land. Then Joshua blessed Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

When we follow the Lord our God wholeheartedly, God is pleased. God wants to fulfill his mission and vision through those who follow God wholeheartedly. When they had conquered the land, the land had rest from war.

Prayer: Prayer: Lord, help us to follow you wholeheartedly and inherit your promised land.

One Word: One Word: Then the land had rest from war.

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