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1 Følgende er de Landstrækninger, Israeliterne fik til Arvelod i Kana'ans Land, som Præsten Eleazar og Josua, Nuns Søn, og Overhovederne for de israelitiske Stammers Fædrenehuse tildelte dem

2 ved Lodkastning som deres Ejendom i Overensstemmelse med det Påbud, HE EN havde givet Moses om de halvtiende Stammer.

3 Thi Moses havde givet de halvtredje Stammer Arvelod hinsides Jordan; men Leviterne gav han ikke Arvelod iblandt dem.

4 Josefs Efterkommere udgjorde nemlig to Stammer, Manasse og Efraim; og Leviterne fik ikke Del i Landet, men kun Byer at bo i tillige med de tilhørende Græsmarker til deres Hjorde og Kvæg.

5 Hvad HE EN havde pålagt Moses, gjorde Israeliterne, og de udskiftede Landet.

6 Da trådte Judæerne frem for Josua i Gilgal, og Kenizziten Kaleb, Jefunnes Søn, sagde til ham: "Du ved, hvad det var, HE EN talede til den Guds Mand Moses i Kadesj Barnea om mig og dig.

7 Fyrretyve År gammel var jeg, dengang HE ENs Tjener Moses udsendte mig fra Kadesj Barnea for at udspejde Landet; og jeg aflagde ham Beretning efter bedste Overbevisning.

8 Men mine Brødre, som var draget med mig, gjorde Folket modløst, medens jeg viste HE EN min Gud fuld Lydighed.

9 Og Moses svor den Dag: Sandelig, det Land, din Fod har betrådt, skal være din og dine Efterkommeres Arvelod til evig Tid, fordi du har vist HE EN min Gud fuld Lydighed!

10 Og se, nu har HE EN opfyldt sit Ord og holdt mig i Live fem og fyrretyve År, siden dengang HE EN talede dette Ord til Moses, al den Tid Israel vandrede i Ørkenen, og se, jeg er nu fem og firsindstyve År.

11 Endnu den Dag i Dag er jeg rask og rørig som på hin Dag, da Moses udsendte mig; nu som da er min Kraft den samme til Kamp og til at færdes omkring.

12 Så giv mig da dette Bjergland, som HE EN dengang talede om; du hørte det jo selv. Thi der bor Anakiter der, og der er store, befæstede Byer; måske vil HE EN være med mig, så jeg kan drive dem bort, som HE EN har sagt!"

13 Da velsignede Josua ham, og han gav Kaleb, Jefunnes Søn, Hebron til Arvelod.

14 Derfor tilfaldt Hebron Kenizziten Kaleb, Jefunnes Søn,, som Arvelod, og den hører ham til den Dag i Dag, fordi han viste HE EN, Israels Gud, fuld Lydighed.

15 Men Hebron hed forhen Arbas By; han var den største Mand blandt Anakiterne. Og Landet fik o efter krigen.

   


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2909. 'In Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan' means within the Church. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Kiriath Arba' as the Church as regards truth, and from the meaning of 'Hebron in the land of Canaan' as the Church as regards good. In the Word, especially the prophetical part, whenever truth is the subject, good also is included, on account of the heavenly marriage that exists in every detail of the Word, see 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712. Here therefore when Kiriath Arba is mentioned, so also is 'Hebron in the land of Canaan'. The land of Canaan is the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, and locations in that land were in varying ways representative, 1585, 1866.

[2] As regards 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', this was a region where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt. Abraham's dwelling there is evident from what has gone before,

Abraham came and dwelt in [the oak-groves of] Mamre, which are in Hebron. Genesis 13:18.

And Isaac and Jacob's dwelling there too is evident from what comes further on, Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. Genesis 35:27.

Joseph was sent by Jacob his father to his brothers, from the Valley of Hebron. Genesis 37:14.

From the representation dealt with already of those three personages it is clear that 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron' represented the Church before Jerusalem did so.

[3] In the course of time every Church deteriorates until it ceases to possess any faith or charity at all, at which point it is destroyed. This too was represented by 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', that is to say, when this place was occupied by the Anakim, by whom dreadful false persuasions were meant, 581, 1673, regarding which occupation by the Anakim, see Numbers 13:21-22; Joshua 11:21; 14:15; 15:13-14; Judges 1:10. As regards the end or close of the Church and its destruction, this was represented by Joshua's utterly destroying everything in that place, Joshua 10:36-37; 11:21, and by Judah and Caleb's smiting the Anakim, Judges 1:10; Joshua 14:13-15; 15:13-14. The establishment again of a new Church was represented by the allotment of its fields and villages to Caleb as his inheritance, Joshua 21:12. The city itself however became a city of refuge, Joshua 20:7; 21:13, and a city for priests, for the sons of Aaron, Joshua 21:10-11, within the inheritance of Judah, Joshua 15:54.

[4] From this it is evident that Hebron represented the Lord's spiritual Church in the land of Canaan. For the same reason also David was ordered by Jehovah's command to go to Hebron and was there anointed king over the house of Judah; and after he had reigned there for seven years and six months he went to Jerusalem and took possession of Zion, see 2 Samuel 2:1-11; 5:5; 1 Kings 2:11, at which point the Lord's spiritual Church now began to be represented by Jerusalem, and His celestial Church by Zion.

  
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