11As 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-15)Before the lot was cast into the lap for the determining of the portions of the respective tribes, the particular portion of Caleb was assigned to him. He was now, except Joshua, not only the oldest man in all Israel, but was twenty years older than any of them, for all that were above twenty years old when he was forty were dead in the wilderness; it was fit therefore that this phoenix of his age…
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