Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 14:24
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Numbers14:24
24 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 .
Ioshua is not here named, because he was not now among the people, but a constant attendant upon Moses, nor was he to be reckoned as one of them, any more than Moses and Aaron were, because he was to be their chief commander.
(i. e.) Was a man of another temper, and carriage, faithful and couragious, not acted by that evil spirit of cowardize, unbelief, unthankfulness, disobedience; which ruled in his brethren, but by the spirit of God.
(i. e.) Universally and constantly, in and through difficulties and dangers, which made his partners halt.
In general Canaan, and particularly Hebron and the adjacent parts, Ios. 14. 9.
Or, shall expell it, i. e. its inhabitants, the land being oft put for the people of it. Compare Ios. 8. 7. and 14. 12.
Marginal references: Josh. 14. 6, 8, 9.
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