Joshua 14:10

Well now, the Lord has kept me alive as he promised, all these forty-five years, ever since the Lord said that word to Moses, all the time of Israel’s wandering in the desert. Today I am eighty-five,

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9and Moses swore that day that the land my feet had trodden should belong to me and to my children for all time, because I had been devoted to the Lord my God.

11and I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me on that mission. As my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war or any enterprise.

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Cross References

Psalms 91:7A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand: but it will not draw near to you.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 14:7-15

Caleb's Request. ( b. c. 1444.) 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. 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. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly… Read the whole commentary →

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