Joshua 14:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ “Now then, [^Llook; ^Tbehold] the Lord has kept his promise. He has kept me alive for forty-five years from the time he said this to Moses during the time ·we all [^LIsrael] wandered in the ·desert [wilderness]. Now ·here [^Llook; ^Tbehold] I am, eighty-five years old. ¹¹ I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out, ·and I am just as ready to fight now as I was then [^Lmy strength then is like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in]. ¹² So give me the mountain country the Lord promised me that day long ago. Back then you heard that the ·Anakite people [Anakim] lived there and the cities were large and well protected. But now with the Lord helping me, I will ·force [drive] them out, just as the Lord said.”