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Commentary on Joshua 14

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Joshua 14:1

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:2

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:3

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:4

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:5

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:6

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:7

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:8

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:9

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:10

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:11

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:12

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:13

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:14

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36

Joshua 14:15

The second half of Joshua is territory: tribe by tribe, boundary by boundary, city by city. Caleb gets Hebron because forty-five years ago he said we are well able to go up. He is eighty-five and still asking for the hardest territory where the Anakim live. The allotments are the Abrahamic promise translated into geography. But the allotments also reveal the gaps. Not all the land is taken. Not all the Canaanites are driven out. The book does not hide this. There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. The gap between the promise given and the promise fully possessed is the tension that will define the book of Judges. Thread 2 is in the allotments: the corporate covenant people receiving their corporate inheritance, family by family, tribe by tribe. Thread 5 is the dispensational fulfillment: the promise of the land made to Abraham in Genesis 15 and reaffirmed through Moses is being executed in real geography with real names on real maps.
The land allotment is the corporate covenant promise becoming concrete territory with specific names and boundaries. The Abrahamic promise does not remain abstract; it becomes Judah's hill country and Ephraim's upland and Zebulun's portion.
וְהָאָרֶץ שָׁקְטָה מִמִּלְחָמָה (ve-ha-arets shaqetah mi-milchamah): and the land rested from war: shaqetah (rested, was quiet, Qal perfect of shaqat; the same root as the peace-rest promised in Deuteronomy 12:10; the land has reached the condition Moses said was the goal of the covenant life in the land)
threads t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Joshua 14:6-15 · Judges 1:1-36
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