Caleb
Caleb appears in the Hebrew Bible as a representative of the Tribe of Judah during the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land.
Quotes
[edit]- Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.
- Numbers 13,30 (NKJV).
- I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.
- Joshua 14,7-11 (NKJV).
Quotes about
[edit]- Caleb, because he testified in the assembly, received an inheritance in the land.
- Mattathias in 1 Maccabees 2,56 (NRSV).
- The Lord gave Caleb strength,
- which remained with him in his old age,
- so that he went up to the hill country,
- and his children obtained it for an inheritance,
- so that all the Israelites might see
:how good it is to follow the Lord.
- Sirach 46,9-10 (NKJV).
- the Lord said: [...] none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, hall see the land that I swore to give to their ancestors; none of those who despised me shall see it. But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
- Numbers 14,22-24 (NKJV).
- And in the days of Moses he proved his loyalty,
- he and Caleb son of Jephunneh:
- they opposed the congregation,
- restrained the people from sin,
- and stilled their wicked grumbling.
- And these two alone were spared
- out of six hundred thousand infantry,
- to lead the people into their inheritance,
- the land flowing with milk and honey.
- Sirach 46,7-8.
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