Notes for Deut 1:34-36

1. J. A. Thompson, Deuteronomy, 88 n2.

2. J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy 18, and 347 n108. Unfortunately the full effect of these literary devices can only be appreciated when they are heard.

3. J. G. Millar, Now Choose Life, 71.

4. The verb "to be full" here is in the Piel stem, which is frequently used to emphasize the fulfillment of the utterances of the prophets. Caleb was—because he was filled with Yahweh—also a fulfilled man, a man who had accomplished all that he was meant to be.