OT Characters: Caleb

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas' <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/ot20-calebmp3/">website</a>.</p><p><strong>Hebrew words:</strong></p><ul><li><i>Khelev </i>(Caleb)<i> </i>-- dog</li><li>Appears 35x in the OT (compared to 223x for Joshua), in Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, and 1 Chronicles</li></ul><p><strong>Further study:</strong></p><ul><li>Passages covered in this podcast<ul><li>Numbers 13-14</li><li>Joshua 14-15</li><li>1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Proverbs 13:12; Hebrews 11:13,39.</li></ul></li><li>Quotable quotes<ul><li>“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” – Edison</li><li>"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser." – a famous educator</li><li>"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Lincoln</li></ul></li><li>Some passages on old age<ul><li>Leviticus 19:32</li><li>Psalm 71:8; 91:12-15</li><li>Isaiah 46:3-4</li><li>Luke 2 (Simeon and [H]anna), Philemon 9 (Paul), etc.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Some things we learn about God:</strong></p><ul><li>As he did for Caleb, God will give us too a different spirit -- the Holy Spirit!</li><li>God will work in our lives till the very end, if we keep our faith.</li><li>Even when we are old, God still has work for us to accomplish! (Ephesians 2:10 <i>always </i>applies.)</li></ul><p><strong>For kids:</strong></p><ul><li>Read the Caleb story.<ul><li>Ask the kids to act out how a very old person walks / talks / moves around.</li><li>Then ask them to move and speak the way they imagine Caleb did.</li><li>Ask, What is the difference? Is it only that his body was different than theirs? (No -- his <i>spirit </i>was different!)</li></ul></li><li>Read some of the extra verses on old age (above).</li><li>Pray together:<ul><li>That we and our friends will respect the aged.</li><li>That we