Quotes About Courage

“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”

So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,

Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of hundreds—approached Moses

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.í

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.