⁹ So that day Moses ·promised [swore to; made an oath to] me, ‘The land where ·you went [^Lyour foot has trodden] will become your ·land [inheritance], and your children will own it forever. I will give you that land because you ·fully believed in [or remained loyal to; ^Lfollowed] the Lord, my God.’

¹⁰ “Now then, [^Llook; ^Tbehold] the Lord has kept his promise. He has kept me alive for forty-five years from the time he said this to Moses during the time ·we all [^LIsrael] wandered in the ·desert [wilderness]. Now ·here [^Llook; ^Tbehold] I am, eighty-five years old. ¹¹ I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out, ·and I am just as ready to fight now as I was then [^Lmy strength then is like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in]. ¹² So give me the mountain country the Lord promised me that day long ago. Back then you heard that the ·Anakite people [Anakim] lived there and the cities were large and well protected. But now with the Lord helping me, I will ·force [drive] them out, just as the Lord said.”

¹³ Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron [^Csouthwest of Jerusalem in the Judean hills] as his ·own [^Linheritance]. ¹⁴ Hebron still ·belongs to [remains the inheritance of] the family of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he ·had faith and obeyed [remained loyal to; ^Lwholly followed] the Lord, the God of Israel.