Bible Commentaries
Joshua 14

Verses 1-15

Joshua 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, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Joshua 14:10 “these forty and five years” Comments - Joshua 14:10 means that the conquest lasted about five years. Caleb was forty years old when he spied out the land at Kadeshbarnea (Joshua 14:7).

Joshua 11:18, “Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.”

Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

Joshua 14:11 Comments - Moses was also strong at the age of one hundred and twenty years (Deuteronomy 34:7).

Deuteronomy 34:7, “And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”