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Joshua 14:13-15 shows Joshua blessing Caleb and giving him Hebron as his inheritance, as he requested. Then, the Israelites lived peacefully and securely in the land of Canaan.

Joshua 14:6-12 records Caleb's request for the hill country of Hebron as his territory because God promised to give him an inheritance due to his unwavering faith.

Joshua 14:1-5 records how Israel's leaders allocated the land of Canaan to the nine and one-half tribes. The Levites received only towns and pasturelands, not territories.   

1 Chronicles 17:23-27 closes David's prayer with a plea that the LORD establish forever the word He has spoken about David's house and do as He has said, that God's name be established and magnified as the God of Israel with David's house established before Him, a confession that David found courage to pray because God revealed He would build him a house, and a closing acknowledgment that God has blessed David's house so that it is blessed forever.

1 Chronicles 17:20-22 continues David's prayer by confessing that there is no one like the LORD and no God besides Him, that no nation on earth is like Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and for whom He made a name by great and terrible things in driving out nations and redeeming them from Egypt, and that God made Israel His own people forever and became their God.

1 Chronicles 17:16-19 describes David the king going in and sitting before the LORD, asking who he is and what his house is that God has brought him this far, marveling that God has spoken of his house for a great while to come and regarded him as a man of high degree, confessing that God knows His servant, and acknowledging that God has done all this greatness for His servant's sake and according to His own heart.

1 Chronicles 17:11-15 contains the heart of the Davidic covenant: when David's days are fulfilled, God will set up one of his sons after him and establish his kingdom, that son will build God a house and God will establish his throne forever, God will be his father and he will be God's son, God will not take His lovingkindness from him as He took it from Saul, and God will settle him in His own house and kingdom forever, and Nathan reports all these words to David.

1 Chronicles 17:7-10 describes the LORD of hosts reminding David that He took him from the pasture to be leader over Israel, has been with him and cut off his enemies, and promising to make David's name great, to plant Israel securely in its own place so the wicked will no longer waste them, to subdue all David's enemies, and to build a house for David.

1 Chronicles 17:3-6 describes the word of God coming to Nathan that same night, telling David that he shall not build a house for the LORD to dwell in, because God has never dwelt in a house since He brought Israel up from Egypt but has gone from tent to tent, and has never asked any of the judges He commanded to shepherd His people why they had not built Him a house of cedar.

1 Chronicles 17:1-2 describes David, dwelling in his house of cedar, telling Nathan the prophet that the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under curtains, and Nathan answering that David should do all that is in his heart because God is with him.

1 Chronicles 16:37-43 describes David leaving Asaph and his relatives to minister continually before the ark of the covenant in Jerusalem with Obed-edom and Hosah as gatekeepers, while Zadok the priest and his relatives remain at the tabernacle of the LORD in Gibeon to offer the morning and evening burnt offerings according to the law, with Heman and Jeduthun leading thanksgiving with trumpets and cymbals, and then all the people depart to their homes and David returns to bless his household.

1 Chronicles 16:34-36 closes David's psalm with thanks to the LORD because He is good and His lovingkindness is everlasting, a prayer for God to save, gather, and deliver His people from the nations so they may give thanks to His holy name and glory in His praise, and a blessing of the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting, to which all the people answer "Amen" and praise the LORD.

1 Chronicles 16:28-33 continues David's psalm by calling the families of the peoples to ascribe glory and strength to the LORD, bring an offering, worship Him in holy array, and tremble before Him, declaring that the world is firmly established, that the heavens, earth, sea, fields, and trees should rejoice and say among the nations, "The LORD reigns," because He is coming to judge the earth.

1 Chronicles 16:23-27 continues David's psalm with a call for all the earth to sing to the LORD, proclaim good tidings of His salvation daily, tell His glory among the nations, and recognize that the LORD is great, greatly to be praised, and to be feared above all gods, because the gods of the peoples are idols while the LORD made the heavens, and splendor, majesty, strength, and joy are before Him in His place.

1 Chronicles 16:14-22 continues David's psalm by declaring the LORD our God whose judgments are in all the earth, calling Israel to remember His everlasting covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob promising the land of Canaan as their inheritance, and recalling how God protected the patriarchs when they were few in number and wandering among the nations, reproving kings and saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm."

1 Chronicles 16:8-13 opens David's psalm of thanksgiving with a call to give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name, make known His deeds among the peoples, sing praises, speak of His wonders, glory in His holy name, seek the LORD and His strength and His face continually, and remember His wonderful deeds, marvels, and judgments, addressed to the seed of Israel His servant and the sons of Jacob His chosen ones.

1 Chronicles 16:4-7 describes David appointing Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD to celebrate, thank, and praise the LORD God of Israel, with Asaph as chief and Zechariah second, musicians on harps, lyres, and loud-sounding cymbals, the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blowing trumpets continually before the ark, and David first assigning Asaph and his relatives on that day to give thanks to the LORD.

1 Chronicles 16:1-3 describes the ark of God placed inside the tent David pitched for it, burnt offerings and peace offerings presented before God, David blessing the people in the name of the LORD, and every man and woman of Israel receiving the blessing.

1 Corinthians 13:13 concludes the chapter with the three things that abide: faith, hope, and love. Paul names love as the greatest, because faith will give way to sight and hope to possession, while love expresses God's own character and continues forever. We ought to live our lives based on these three, with love as the primary and foundational virtue.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 illustrates the progression from the partial to the finished work with two analogies. When a human is in the child stage of life, their speech, thought, and reasoning are appropriate yet limited, but as they grow up, these abilities give way to a grown man or woman’s abilities. They become mature and complete. Likewise, our current state of life is like looking into the dim reflection in a mirror, but when we reach eternity with God, it will give way to seeing God face to face and knowing Him fully, just as God already knows us.