Caleb's Request and Inheritance

Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the (A)Kenizzite said to him, “You know (B)what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.

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30 not one shall come into the land where I (A)swore that I would make you dwell, (B)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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24 But my servant (A)Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has (B)followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

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14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, (A)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

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

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17 (A)And Othniel the son of Kenaz, (B)the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

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12 none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the (A)Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for (B)they have wholly followed the Lord.’

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26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at (A)Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

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Book Four

From Everlasting to Everlasting

A (A)Prayer of Moses, the (B)man of God.

90 Lord, you have been our (C)dwelling place[a]
    in all generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Septuagint) our refuge

36 (A)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’ 37 Even with me (B)the Lord was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there. 38 (C)Joshua the son of Nun, (D)who stands before you, he shall enter. (E)Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

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17 that (A)the man of God[a] may be complete, (B)equipped (C)for every good work.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 3:17 That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)

Fight the Good Fight of Faith

11 But as for you, (A)O man of God, (B)flee these things. (C)Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

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11 And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, (A)until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.

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Hazael Murders Ben-hadad

Now Elisha came to (A)Damascus. (B)Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”

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42 A man came from (A)Baal-shalishah, (B)bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, (C)“Give to the men, that they may eat.”

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16 And he said, “At this season, (A)about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, (B)O man of God; (C)do not lie to your servant.”

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And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy (A)man of God who is continually passing our way.

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14 And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”

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A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

13 And behold, (A)a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar (B)to make offerings.

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Then the woman came and told her husband, (A)“A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. (B)I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, but he said to me, (C)‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”

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43 (A)Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

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19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at (A)Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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10 And there has not (A)arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, (B)whom the Lord knew face to face,

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So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord,

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