What minor prophet does Joshua share a name with? (And why did God change his name?) And what does Caleb’s name teach us about dogs, Gentiles, and whole-heartedness? What do tassels (tzitzit) have to do with wings and a woman whom Yeshua healed? And how did the mispronunciation of one Hebrew word keep the Israelites from entering the Promised Land?
Numbers 13:16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
הושע = “Hoshea”
יהושע = “Joshua”
Numbers 14:24 “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.”
כלב
כל + לב
(lev) (cal)
“heart” “all”
Numbers 13:20 “And how is the land – is it fertile or is it lean? Is there a tree in it or not …”
היש בה עץ (ha’yeish bo aitz)
Numbers 13:31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for it is stronger than us.”
ממנו (memenu) = “than us”
(memeno) “than Him”
Numbers 14:17-18 “And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as You have declared.”
יגדל (yigdal)
Numbers 14:28 “Say to them, ‘As I live, declares Adonai, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you.’”
אמר אלהם חי אני נאם יהוה אם לא
כאשׁר דברתם באזני כן אעשׂה לכם׃
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Numbers 33:56 “And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”
והיה כאשׁר דמיתי לעשׂות להם אעשׂה לכם׃
Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the people of Israel and tell them to make tzitzit on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tzitzit of each corner.”
כנף (canaph) = “corner” or “wing’
Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings…”
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Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Torah of Adonai, and on His Torah he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Matthew 9:20-21 A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years approached Him from behind and touched the tzitzit on His robe. For she said to herself, “If I can only touch His robe, I will be healed.”
Numbers 14:22 “None of the men who have seen My glory and My signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed mMy voice…”
Numbers 32:12 “…none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed Adonai.”
Genesis 36:10-11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
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