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Caleb

A spy who saw giants and said, Let us go up at once, then waited forty-five years for his mountain.

The story

1. Spying out the land Num 13:1-25

   Sent with eleven others to scout Canaan.

2. Let us go up Num 13:30

   He quiets the people and urges them to take the land.

3. Nearly stoned Num 14:6-10

   The people want to stone him and Joshua; God's glory appears.

4. Forty years Num 14:24, 30

   He waits out the wilderness with a generation that refused to go.

5. Give me this hill country Josh 14:6-15

   At eighty-five he claims Hebron and drives out the giants.

Key verses

“Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Numbers 13:30 (ESV)

Read together: Num 13:1-25 · Num 13:30 · Num 14:6-10 · Num 14:24, 30 · Josh 14:6-15

Questions to sit with

1. Caleb saw the same giants as everyone else. What giants are you measuring against God's promise?
2. He waited forty-five years for his mountain. What are you still waiting to receive?

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