Holy Scripture

Joshua 14:9

A church father on this verse
“However, he [the Lord] said they should not come to that land which they had refused, as a penalty for their unbelief; but their children and wives, who had not murmured, and who, owing to their sex and age, were guiltless, should receive the promised inheritance of that land. So the bodies of those of twenty years ol…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Duties of the Clergy 3.8.55-56

Source: Septuagint

Original

9And Moses swore on that day, saying, The land on which thou art gone up, it shall be thy inheritance and thy children’s forever, because thou hast applied thyself to follow the Lord our God.

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In context

7For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.

8My brethren that went up with me turned away the heart of the people, but I applied myself to follow the Lord my God.

— Joshua 14:9 —

10And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

11I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

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