Charles Ellicott Commentary Numbers 14:24

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Numbers 14:24

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Numbers 14:24

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." — Numbers 14:24 (ASV)

And his seed shall possess it. It appears from Joshua 14:6-14 that Moses had specially promised Hebron to Caleb, and that the mountainous country which the Anakim inhabited, and which only he and Joshua of the twelve spies believed that the Israelites were able to take possession of, was afterwards allotted to him by Joshua “for an inheritance.”