Giosuè 14:12

La Nuova Diodati

Or dunque dammi questo monte di cui lEterno parl quel giorno; poich tu stesso udisti in quel giorno che vi erano gli Anakim e citt grandi e fortificate. Se lEterno sar con me, io li scaccer come disse lEterno".

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Or dunque dammi questo monte del quale l’Eterno parlò quel giorno; poiché tu udisti allora che vi stanno degli Anakim e che vi sono delle città grandi e fortificate. Forse l’Eterno sarà meco, e lo li caccerò, come disse l’Eterno".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ora dunque dammi questo monte, del quale il Signore parlò in quel giorno; perciocchè tu udisti in quel giorno che gli Anachiti sono là, e che vi sono delle città grandi e forti; forse il Signore sarà meco, e io li scaccerò, come il Signore ne ha parlato.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Anakims: Joshua 11:21, Joshua 11:22, Numbers 13:28, Numbers 13:33

if so be: Numbers 14:8, Numbers 14:9, Numbers 21:34, 1 Samuel 14:6, 2 Chronicles 14:11, Psalms 18:32-34, Psalms 27:1-3, Psalms 44:3, Psalms 60:12, Psalms 118:10-12, Romans 8:31, Philippians 4:13, Hebrews 11:33

I shall: Joshua 15:14, Judges 1:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:27 - Mamre Judges 1:19 - the Lord 1 Samuel 17:32 - thy 2 Samuel 21:22 - fell by 2 Kings 19:4 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 20:8 - they fell 2 Chronicles 27:4 - the mountains Psalms 33:16 - mighty Isaiah 37:4 - It may Joel 2:14 - Who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day,.... The mountainous part of the country, the hill country of Judea, in which Hebron, Debir, and other cities were; for it was not one particular city only that Caleb requested, but a large tract of ground;

for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great and fenced; that the giants, called Anakims, dwelt in the mountainous country, and their cities, Hebron, Debir, and Anab, were very large, and well fortified; this Joshua heard at the time the spies were sent into the land, he being one of them; and this he heard, not from the report of the spies, but from the people of the country, and therefore must know that to conquer these men, and subdue their cities, was an arduous undertaking; but since he had strength and courage, he hoped his request would be granted:

if so be the Lord [will be] with me; which he spake not as doubting of his presence and power to be with him, and assist him, but as placing his confidence therein, and, distrusting his own power and ability, having no dependence or that, but believing that the Lord, or, as the Targum, the Word of the Lord, would be with him for his help:

then, says Caleb,

I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said; that is, to drive the Anakims out of their cities, or out of the mountains, the caves and dens there, to which they betook themselves, since the taking of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, by Joshua, Joshua 11:22; and he relied upon the promise of God to enable him to do this, and not upon his natural strength and courage, or the number and prowess of the warlike tribe of Judah, of which he was prince.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Anakims had in the course of Joshua’s campaigns in the south been expelled from “this mountain,” i. e. the mountain country round Hebron, but they had only withdrawn to the neighboring cities of Philistia Joshua 11:22. Thence, they had, as must be inferred from the text here, returned and reoccupied Hebron, probably when Joshua and the main force of the Israelites had marched northward to deal with Jabin and his confederates. Caleb finally drove out this formidable race and occupied Hebron and its dependent towns and district permanently. See Joshua 15:13 following.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 14:12. I shall be able to drive them out — He cannot mean Hebron merely, for that had been taken before by Joshua; but in the request of Caleb doubtless all the circumjacent country was comprised, in many parts of which the Anakim were still in considerable force. It has been conjectured that Hebron itself had again fallen under the power of its former possessors, who, taking the advantage of the absence of the Israelitish army, who were employed in other parts of the country, re-entered the city, and restored their ancient domination. But the first opinion seems best founded.