Joshua 14:6

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”

The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.” ’

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.

The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.

For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’

They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.

Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;

Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”

He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.