The two different descriptions of the promise land is the two main voices of the people of Israel: one sais that they should come back to Egypt, to the well known slavery, but with confidence about their life; the other sais let us believe in our God, let us go to the promise land, we can fight with the giant people there- wee can be the grasshoppers who will conquest the fortresses!

It must be said that in the side that wants to go to Canaan we can also see two points of views-these are Joshua and Caleb, the two people, whom the people of Israel wanted to stone with stones after they tried to tell them not to give up on the idea of entering to the promise land. The two points of view are for the close future and for the long future. We know that Joshua was the leader of the people of Israel after Moses, we don’t remember what have been said about Caleb and this is my responsibility to tell you.

Caleb is from the tribe of Judah, the tribe which David the king came from. If we will look closely to the text we can see not just the close future but also the long one.

Let us read Numbers 14:24-

“וְעַבְדִּי כָלֵב, עֵקֶב הָיְתָה רוּחַ אַחֶרֶת עִמּוֹ , וַיְמַלֵּא, אַחֲרָי–וַהֲבִיאֹתִיו, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר-בָּא שָׁמָּה, וְזַרְעוֹ, יוֹרִשֶׁנָּה”

“But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it”

From the first look it seems to be that Caleb will be the leader, but only the time tell us that it wouldn’t be him – it will be David, his seed….

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