Giosué 14:11

11 sono oggi ancora robusto com’ero il giorno che Mosè mi mandò; le mie forze son le stesse d’allora, tanto per combattere quanto per andare e venire.

Giosué 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 14:11

As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day that
Moses sent me
To spy the land, forty five years ago; suggesting that he was as sound in his mind, understanding, judgment and memory, and as hale, strong, and robust in his body now, as he had been so long ago; which was a wonderful instance of the care of divine Providence over him in upholding him in life, and continuing him in vigour and health at such an age, when the carcasses of so many thousands had pined away and fell in the wilderness:

as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now for war;
he had the same strength of body and courage of mind to engage in warlike enterprises as he had so many years ago; and this he the rather mentions, to prevent any objection Joshua might make to the giving of Hebron to him, since being inhabited by giants, it required a large share of strength and courage to attempt the conquest of it: but Caleb had strength

both to go out, and to come in;
to do any civil business, to preside over his tribe, or to govern any city, and its appendages, that should be put into his hands.

Giosué 14:11 In-Context

9 E in quel giorno Mosè fece questo giuramento: La terra che il tuo piede ha calcata sarà eredità tua e dei tuoi figliuoli in perpetuo, perché hai pienamente seguito l’Eterno, il mio Dio.
10 Ed ora ecco, l’Eterno mi ha conservato in vita, come avea detto, durante i quarantacinque anni ormai trascorsi da che l’Eterno disse quella parola a Mosè, quando Israele viaggiava nel deserto; ed ora ecco che ho ottantacinque anni;
11 sono oggi ancora robusto com’ero il giorno che Mosè mi mandò; le mie forze son le stesse d’allora, tanto per combattere quanto per andare e venire.
12 Or dunque dammi questo monte del quale l’Eterno parlò quel giorno; poiché tu udisti allora che vi stanno degli Anakim e che vi sono delle città grandi e fortificate. Forse l’Eterno sarà meco, e lo li caccerò, come disse l’Eterno".
13 Allora Giosuè lo benedisse, e dette Hebron come eredità a Caleb, figliuolo di Gefunne.
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