Teks -- Joshua 14:10 (NET)

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.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jos 14:10 - Forty

five years - Whereof thirty - eight years were spent in the wilderness, and seven since they came into Canaan. The longer we live the more sensible we should be, of God's goodness to us in keeping us alive! Of his care in prolonging our frail lives, his patience in prolonging our forfeited lives! And shall not the life thus kept by his providence, be devoted to his praise?

JFB: Jos 14:6-11 - Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb . . . said

This incident is recorded here because it occurred while the preparations were being made for casting the lots, which, it appears, were begun in Gilgal. The claim of Caleb to the mountains of Hebron as his personal and family possessions was founded on a solemn promise of Moses, forty-five years before (Num 14:24; Deu 1:36; Jos 14:10), to give him that land on account of his fidelity. Being one of the nominees appointed to preside over the division of the country, he might have been charged with using his powers as a commissioner to his own advantage, had he urged his request in private; and therefore he took some of his brethren along with him as witness of the justice and propriety of his conduct.

Clarke: Jos 14:10 - These forty and five years

These forty and five years - See the note on Jos 13:1.

TSK: Jos 14:10 - forty // wandered

forty : Jos 11:18; Num 14:33, Num 14:34

wandered : Heb. walked

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jos 14:10 - These forty and five years

These forty and five years whereof thirty-eight years were spent in the wilderness, and seven since they came into Canaan.

Gill: Jos 14:10 - And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said // these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, and while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness // and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said,.... Had upheld him in life, and preserved him from many dangers in the wilderness; and had continued him not only in life, but in health to that day, according to his promise to him, that he would bring him into the land of Canaan, and that he should see and possess it, Num 14:24 Deu 1:36,

these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, and while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; not that the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness forty five years, but it was while they were in the wilderness this word or promise, concerning Caleb, was spoken by the Lord to Moses; and it was in the second year of their coming out of Egypt, after which they wandered in the wilderness thirty eight years, so that they had now been in the land of Canaan seven years; and from hence the Jewish chronologers ^s gather, that the land was seven years in subduing, and which their commentators in general take notice of. Maimonides ^t seems to be displeased with the Arabs for calling the wilderness, through which the Israelites travelled, "the desert of wandering"; but it appears from hence to be a very proper epithet of it; and Kadesh the place where they were first threatened, that they should be wanderers in the wilderness for such a time, had the additional name of Barnea, which signifies the son of a wanderer:

and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old; being forty years of age when sent a spy into the land, Jos 14:7; thirty eight years he was with Israel in the wilderness, and seven years more since they entered into the land, in all eighty five; there is no necessity of understanding it that this was his precise birth day, but that about this time, or that he was now completely of such an age, which was more by fifteen years than the age of man in common at that time, see Psa 90:10.