Joshua 14:9-12

Good News Translation

⁹^(A)Because I did, Moses promised me that my children and I would certainly receive as our possession the land which I walked over. ¹⁰But now, look. It has been forty-five years since the Lord said that to Moses. That was when Israel was going through the desert, and the Lord, as he promised, has kept me alive ever since. Look at me! I am eighty-five years old ¹¹and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else. ¹²Now then, give me the hill country that the Lord promised me on that day when my men and I reported. We told you then that the race of giants called the Anakim were there in large walled cities. Maybe the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.”

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Joshua 14:9-12

New International Version

⁹So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance^(A) and that of your children^(B) forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’^[a]

¹⁰“Now then, just as the Lord promised,^(C) he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved^(D) about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!^(E) ¹¹I am still as strong^(F) today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous^(G) to go out to battle now as I was then. ¹²Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^(H) You yourself heard then that the Anakites^(I) were there and their cities were large and fortified,^(J) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”