Yosua 14:7-11

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ¹  14:8 My countrymen ²  who accompanied ³  me frightened the people, ⁴  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁵  14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: ⁶  ‘Surely the land on which you walked ⁷  will belong to you and your descendants permanently, ⁸  for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’ 14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old. 14:11 Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

² tn Heb “brothers.”

³ tn Heb “went up with.”

⁴ tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

⁵ tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

⁶ tn Heb “swore an oath.”

⁷ tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

⁸ tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”

⁹ tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”