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Joshua 14

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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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Arcana Coelestia #4117

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4117. 'And he set his face towards mount Gilead' means good within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'mount' as the celestial element of love, which is good, dealt with in 795, 1430, to which the good meant by 'Jacob' was joined - 'Gilead' meaning the essential nature of it. Since the river was the boundary and, as has been stated, meant the first phase of the joining together, 'mount Gilead', which lay in this part away from the Jordan, means the good involved in that first stage of the joining together.

[2] The land of Gilead where the mountain was situated lay within the confines of the land of Canaan understood in a wide sense. It was situated on this side of the Jordan, and was granted as an inheritance to the Reubenites and the Gadites, and in particular to the half-tribe of Manasseh. And since the inheritances stretched out that far, it is said that it was situated within the confines of the land of Canaan understood in a wide sense. The fact that this territory was granted as an inheritance to those tribes is clear in Moses, Numbers 32:1, 26-41; Deuteronomy 3:8, 10-16; Joshua 13:24-31. For this reason when the land of Canaan was envisaged in its entirety it was said to stretch from Gilead even to Dan, and in another sense from Beersheba even to Dan, for Dan also was a boundary, 1710, 3923. Regarding its stretching from Beersheba even to Dan, see 2858, 2859; and reference to its doing so from Gilead to Dan occurs in Moses,

Moses went up from the plains of Moab onto mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is in the direction of Jericho. There Jehovah showed him the whole land, Gilead even to Dan. Deuteronomy 34:1.

And in the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

[3] Because it was a boundary, 'Gilead' in the spiritual sense means the good that comes first, which is that of the bodily senses, for it is the good or delight of the senses that a person who is being regenerated is introduced into first of all. This is the sense in which 'Gilead' is taken in the Prophets, as in Jeremiah 8:22; 22:6; 46:11; 50:19; Ezekiel 47:18; Obad. verse 19; Micah 7:14; Zechariah 10:10; Psalms 60:7; and in the contrary sense, in Hosea 6:8; 12:11.

  
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