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on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly fol-
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eastward. But to the tribe of Levi Moses had lowed the LORD God of Israel. And the name
given no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba
was their inheritance, as He had said to them. was the greatest man among the Anakim).
These are the areas which the children of Then the land had rest from war.
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which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of
Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes 20 If we had forgotten the name of our
of the children of Israel distributed as an God,
inheritance to them. Their inheritance was by Or stretched out our hands to a foreign
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lot, as the LORD had commanded by the hand god,
of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the
two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side
of the Jordan; but to the Levites he had given 44:22 Yet for Your sake. They had no specific
no inheritance among them. For the children answers—only this inescapable conclusion
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of Joseph were two tribes: Manasseh and that, by God’s sovereign will, they were
Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites allowed to be destroyed by their enemies.See
in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their Paul’s quote of this verse in Romans 8:36 and
common-lands for their livestock and their its general principle in Matthew 5:10–12;
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property. As the LORD had commanded 1Peter 3:13–17; 4:12–16.
Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they
divided the land.
6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua
21 Would not God search this out?
in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word 22 For He knows the secrets of the heart.
which the LORD said to Moses the man of God Yet for Your sake we are killed all day
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concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. I long;
was forty years old when Moses the servant of We are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy
out the land, and I brought back word to him 23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
as it was in my heart. Nevertheless my Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
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brethren who went up with me made the heart 24 Why do You hide Your face,
of the people melt, but I wholly followed the And forget our affliction and our
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LORD my God. So Moses swore on that day, oppression?
saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
trodden shall be your inheritance and your Our body clings to the ground.
children’s forever, because you have wholly 26 Arise for our help,
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followed the LORD my God.’ And now, And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.
behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He Proverbs 14:3
said, these forty-five years, ever since the
LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel 3 In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride,
wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I But the lips of the wise will preserve
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am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am them.
as strong this day as on the day that Moses Luke 11:1–28
sent me; just as my strength was then, so now
is my strength for war, both for going out and Now it came to pass, as He was praying in
for coming in. Now therefore, give me this 11 a certain place, when He ceased, that one
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mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day;
for you heard in that day how the Anakim were
there, and that the cities were great and forti-
fied. It may be that the LORD will be with me,
and I shall be able to drive them out as the 11:1 Lord,teach us to pray.Rabbis often com-
LORD said.” posed prayers for their disciples to recite.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron Having seen Jesus pray many times, Jesus’ dis-
to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheri- ciples knew of His love for prayer, and they
tance. Hebron therefore became the inheri- knew prayer was not just the reciting of words.
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