Caleb

Family: Judah · Role: spy · First appears: Numbers 13

Caleb, a spy of Judah and son of Jephunneh, was sent by Moses in Numbers 13 among the tribal leaders to search Canaan. After forty days, the spies returned with fruit and reported that the land flowed with milk and honey. Caleb then urged Israel, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

In Numbers 14, God distinguished Caleb because he had followed Him fully, promising to bring him into the land and give it to his seed. While the other adults and the other spies were condemned to die in the wilderness, Caleb and Joshua lived; later, God exempted Caleb from judgment and promised him the land he had explored. In Numbers 34, Caleb was among those connected with God’s command to divide Canaan’s inheritance among Israel.

Relationship record

Life events

• Moses sent twelve tribal leaders to spy out the land of Canaan.(Numbers 13 · 📍 the wilderness of Paran)
  • With: Moses Shammua Shaphat Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel
  • “These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.”
• The spies returned from searching the land and brought back its fruit and report.(Numbers 13 · 📍 Kadesh)
  • With: Shammua Shaphat Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel
  • “And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.”
• The spies reported that Canaan flowed with milk and honey.(Numbers 13 · 📍 the wilderness of Paran)
  • With: Moses Shammua Shaphat Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel
  • “We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.”
• Caleb urged Israel to immediately possess the land.(Numbers 13)
  • With: Moses
  • “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”
• God promises to bring Caleb into the land because he followed Him fully.(Numbers 14)
  • With: God
  • “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.”
• God condemns the murmuring adults to die in the wilderness, excepting Joshua and Caleb.(Numbers 14 · 📍 the wilderness)
  • With: God Moses Aaron Joshua
  • “Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.”
• Joshua and Caleb survive while the other spies who searched the land die.(Numbers 14)
  • With: Joshua
  • “But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.”
• God exempted Caleb from judgment and promised him the land he had explored.(Deuteronomy 1)
  • With: God
  • “Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.”

Numbers 13

• sender: Moses “These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.”
• commander: Moses “And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:”
• parent: Jephunneh “Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.”

Numbers 14

• with God (God promises to bring Caleb into the land.) “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.”
• with God (Caleb follows God fully.) “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.”
• sender: Moses (Caleb is identified among the men Moses sent to search the land.) “And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.”

Numbers 34

• commander: God “These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.”

Deuteronomy 1

• with God (God grants Caleb the land he has trodden.) “Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Five Books of Moses. Made with Rho MD.