I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.As He had done for Moses before, God has preserved Caleb physically. Forty-five years gone by, and he still has the same health as before. It's likely that Joshua has been similarly "preserved."
God didn't really have to do this. He had promised that land to Caleb, but He could easily have made it so that the people as a whole conquered it, and then Caleb was simply given possession. But that's now how God arranged things. He gave Caleb the strength to go himself and drive out the inhabitants, so that he would also know that God had saved him for this time. When God wants someone to do something, He gives him the tools necessary.
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