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Caleb and Moses
How Caleb and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Moses's word reached Caleb.
Moses sent Caleb from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land and swore that the land his feet had trodden would be his. Forty-five years later Caleb claimed that oath, and Hebron became his inheritance.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan
Numbers 13:17, King James Version
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance
Joshua 14:9, King James Version
Now therefore give me this mountain
Joshua 14:12, King James Version
And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said
Judges 1:20, King James Version
Where they cross: Joshua 14:6-14
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Numbers 13:17
17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Joshua 14:6-14
6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
7Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
9And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
10And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.
13And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
14Hebron 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.
Judges 1:20
20And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
King James Version