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Num 14:24 — But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

my servant		Num 14:6-9; Num 13:30; Num 26:65; Deu 1:36; Jos 14:6-14
another spirit		"Caleb had another spirit; not only a bold, generous, courageous, noble, and heroic spirit, but the Spirit and influence of God, which thus raised him above human inquietudes and earthly fears. Therefore he followed God fully; literally, ""and he filled after me:"" God shewed him the way he was to take and the line of conduct he was to pursue, and he filled up this line, and in all things followed the will of his Maker."
followed me		Num 32:11,12; Deu 6:5; Jos 14:8,9; 1Ch 29:9,18; 2Ch 25:2; Psa 119:80,145; Pro 23:26; Act 11:23; Eph 6:6; Col 3:23

Correlating Passages

my servant

	Num 14:6	And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
	Num 14:7	And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land.
	Num 14:8	If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
	Num 14:9	Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.
	Num 13:30	And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
	Num 26:65	For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
	Deu 1:36	Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
	Jos 14:6	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.
	Jos 14:7	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.
	Jos 14:8	Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
	Jos 14:9	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.
	Jos 14:10	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.
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followed me

	Num 32:11	Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
	Num 32:12	Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
	Deu 6:5	And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
	Jos 14:8	Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
	Jos 14:9	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.
	1Ch 29:9	Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
	1Ch 29:18	O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
	2Ch 25:2	And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
	Psa 119:80	Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
	Psa 119:145	KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
	Pro 23:26	My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
	Act 11:23	Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
	Eph 6:6	Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
	Col 3:23	And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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