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Scripture: Joshua 14:6, 10-12, 14, 15:13-14 Caleb said to Joshua,...10“Now, as you can see, the LORD has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old. 11 I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. 12 So give me the hill country that the LORD promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great, walled towns. But if the LORD is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the LORD said...14 Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel...13 So Caleb was given the town of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), which had been named after Anak’s ancestor. 14 Caleb drove out the three groups of Anakites..." Observations: Caleb is an in...

Scripture: Joshua 12-13:1-2, 6 "1 These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jordan Valley...24 In all, thirty-one kings were defeated...13:1 When Joshua was an old man, the Lord said to him, “You are growing old, and much land remains to be conquered. 2 This is the territory that remains:...the south also remains to be conquered. In the north, the following area has not yet been conquered: all the land of the Canaanites...6 and all the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, including all the land of the Sidonians. Observations: After Joshua and the Israelites successfully conquered the majority of the Promised Land (31 Kings in all) and began settling their families in the areas God had given them, the Scripture records all of their victories in succession as a testament to God's faithfulness and the peopl...