These forty and five years] The notes of time given here and in Joshua 14:7 are interesting. Caleb was 40 years old at Kadesh: 45 years have intervened since then, and he is now 85. Allowing 38 years for the penal wanderings, we get 7 years as the period covered by the war of conquest up to this date.

12-15. Hebron assigned to Caleb: on Hebron see on Joshua 10:36, and on Caleb's possession of it, Joshua 15:13. and note. On the Anakim see on Joshua 11:22.

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