Joshua 14:15

Modern English Version

The former name of Hebron was Kiriath-arba. Arba was the greatest man among the Anakites. Then the land had rest from war.

Cross References

Genesis 23:2

Then Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Genesis 35:27

Jacob came back to Isaac his father in Mamre of Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Genesis 37:14

Israel said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

1 Chronicles 6:4

Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas the father of Abishua,

Nehemiah 11:25

For the villages located by their fields, some of the people of Judah lived at Kiriath-arba and its villages, others at Dibon and its villages, or at Jekabzeel and its villages,

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land according to all that the Lord had said to Moses. Joshua gave it to Israel as an inheritance according to their allotted portions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

Joshua 14:14

Therefore Hebron became an inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he completely followed after the Lord, the God of Israel.

Joshua 15:13

According to the word of the Lord to Joshua, Caleb son of Jephunneh was given an allotment among the tribe of Judah: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron). Arba was the father of Anak.

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and the grazing lands around it.

Joshua 21:12

(Now they had given the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

Judges 1:20

They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak.

Judges 3:11

The land rested forty years, then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Judges 3:30

So Moab was humbled under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had peace for eighty years.

Judges 5:31

“May all Your enemies perish like this, O  Lord! But may those who love Him rise like the sun when it rises in full strength.” Then the land was at peace for forty years.

Judges 8:28

The Midianites were humbled before the Israelites and did not lift their heads high again. The land had peace for forty years in the days of Gideon.

1 Samuel 30:31

and in Hebron; and to those who were in all the other places where David and his men had roamed.