King James Version
Joshua 14:8 in the King James Version says “Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.”
Joshua 14:8 · KJV
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. wandered: Heb. walked
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“Nevertheless my brethren”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“with me made the heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“of the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“but I wholly”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“followed”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“my God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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