Joshua 14:11
in Joshua 14still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
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ASV
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
KJV
As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
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This verse in Joshua 14
Commentary
8 notes on this verseTo go out, and to come in - To perform all the duties belonging to my place. Moses had said, that at eighty years old, even our strength is labour and sorrow. But Caleb was an exception to this rule: At eighty-five years old, his strength was still ease and joy.
This site's exposition
He has kept me alive these forty-five years
on Joshua 14:10-11
Albert Barnes breaks the forty-five years into thirty-eight from the spies' report to the arrival at the Jordan, following Numbers 13:25 and 20:1, and seven years of war since the crossing. Those seven are the long period of Joshua 11:18. Caleb was forty when he was sent and is eighty-five now, standing outside the sentence of Numbers 14:29 while the men who left Egypt with him died in the desert.
This site's exposition
for going out, and for coming in
John Wesley reads going out and coming in as every duty of Caleb's post, and he sets Caleb beside Psalm 90:10, which gives even eighty strong years only labor and sorrow. Adam Clarke reads the claim as an offer to fight. Caleb wants Hebron for the battle it will take, with no wish to settle into ease.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Desert FathersThe Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks · Written before 500.
proposed
A brother asked John, 'What shall I do? A brother keeps coming and taking me away to help with the work which he is doing: but I am poor and ill, and too weak to do it. How can I obey God's commandment?' He answered …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): As my strength was then, so is it now. This was the fruit of the promise, and out-did what was said; for God not only gives what he promises, but he gives more: life by promise shall be life, and health, and strength, and all that which will make the promised life a blessing and comfort.
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As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The claim of Caleb to the mountains of Hebron as his personal and family possessions was founded on a solemn promise of Moses, forty-five years before (Nu 14:24;
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Even so is my strength now - I do not ask this place because I wish to sit down now, and take my ease; on the contrary, I know I must fight, to drive out the Anakim, and I am as able and willing to do it as I was forty-five years ago, when Moses sent me to spy out the land.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
It is now forty five years. From this we learn that it took seven years to conquer the land, for it was in the second year. After they went out of Egypt. that Moshe sent the spies. 6 To spy out the land.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עוֹדֶ֨נִּי | odeni | still I | H5750 → | 490 times |
| הַיּ֜וֹם | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| חָזָ֗ק | chazak | [am] strong | H2389 → | 56 times |
| כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙ | kaasher | just as | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בְּי֨וֹם | beyom | on [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| שְׁלֹ֤חַ | sheloach | sent | H7971 → | 845 times |
| אוֹתִי֙ | ʾoti | <obj.> me | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֔ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| כְּכֹ֥חִי | kekhochi | as strength my | H3581 → | 126 times |
| אָ֖ז | ʾaz | then | H227 → | 141 times |
| וּכְכֹ֣חִי | ukhekhochi | and as strength my | H3581 → | 126 times |
| עָ֑תָּה | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה | lamilchamah | for the battle | H4421 → | 320 times |
| וְלָצֵ֥את | velatzet | and to go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| וְלָבֽוֹא׃ | velavo' | and to come | H935 → | 2568 times |
עוֹדֶ֨נִּיstill I
odeniH5750 →490 times
הַיּ֜וֹםthis day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
חָזָ֗ק[am] strong
chazakH2389 →56 times
כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙just as
kaasherH834 →5497 times
בְּי֨וֹםon [the] day
beyomH3117 →2304 times
שְׁלֹ֤חַsent
sheloachH7971 →845 times
אוֹתִי֙<obj.> me
ʾotiH853 →10935 times
מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
כְּכֹ֥חִיas strength my
kekhochiH3581 →126 times
אָ֖זthen
ʾazH227 →141 times
וּכְכֹ֣חִיand as strength my
ukhekhochiH3581 →126 times
עָ֑תָּהnow
ʾatahH6258 →433 times
לַמִּלְחָמָ֖הfor the battle
lamilchamahH4421 →320 times
וְלָצֵ֥אתand to go out
velatzetH3318 →1067 times
וְלָבֽוֹא׃and to come
velavo'H935 →2568 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
it leads to
- Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Psalms 107:9
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- 1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us…
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Psalms 63:5
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
- Isaiah 40:31
Through
Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Deuteronomy 34:7
Through
Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 31:2
he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the…
- Deuteronomy 31:2
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Desert Fathers, The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.