Donna
Danna (24 Jan 2004)
"REPLY TO DIANNE TALSMA --
Joshua & Caleb - 60?"
Hi Dianne,
In reply to your question in your 1/22 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2005/diannet122-1.htm
as to whether Joshua and Caleb were 60 years old when they entered the
Promised Land, Caleb must have been 80 years old when he entered into the
promised land of Israel after the Jewish people had been in the wilderness
for 40 years. Joshua 14:6-7 tells us the following:
"Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephuneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest
the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and
thee in Kadesh-barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant
of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought
him word again as it was in mine heart."
This Bible passage doesn't say how old Joshua was when
he was also sent to spy out the promised land for Moses, but it makes me
wonder if he was also about the same age as Caleb.
God bless,
Donna