{"id":54104,"date":"2019-04-20T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54104"},"modified":"2022-11-12T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:30:06","slug":"points-to-ponder-chapter-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-chapter-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Points to Ponder – Chapter 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Those were the days<\/span><\/i>. Caleb and Joshua were the two spies who together expressed loyalty to the divine promise of inheriting the land. <\/span>
    \n<\/span>Where are they now? Caleb says of himself in verse 11: \u201cI am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me; my strength is the same now as it was then, for battle and for activity.\u201d <\/span>
    \n<\/span>Contrast what is said of Joshua in the previous chapter: \u201cJoshua was now old, advanced in years\u2026.very much of the land still remains to be taken possession of.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Forget anything? <\/span><\/i>Speaking in the singular as he does, Caleb speech curiously omits Joshua: \u201cI was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I gave him a forthright report. While my companions who went up with me took the heart out of the people, I was loyal to the LORD my God\u201d (verses 7-8).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Consistent and insistent<\/span><\/i>. Caleb requests to deal with those exact threats that the other spies had been afraid of then, the giants and the fortified cities: \u201cSo assign to me this hill country as the LORD promised on that day. Though you too heard on that day that Anakites are there and great fortified cities, if only the LORD is with me, I will dispossess them, as the LORD promised.\u201d Compare with Numbers 13:28.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Four (arba\u2019) is not a number<\/span><\/i>. It\u2019s actually the name of \u201cthe great[est] man among the Anakites,\u201d whose name was memorialized in the name Kiryat Arba, both then and now.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. A little math lesson<\/span><\/i>. Caleb\u2019s CV is the basis for the following calculation (which the sages had already come to in the Talmud, \u00a0Zevachim 118b): Caleb was 40 at the time of the story of the spies (verse 10), and he\u2019s now 85. The wandering in the desert (punishment for the sin of the spies) lasted 38 years, since it happened two years after the Exodus. 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