Joshua 14:6-15

Evangelical Heritage Version

You know what the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to scout the land, and I brought back to him my heartfelt advice. ⁸ When my brother Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, I nevertheless fully followed the Lord my God. ⁹ So Moses swore an oath to me on that day. He said, “Most certainly the land on which your foot has walked shall be an inheritance for you and for your children forever, because you fully followed the Lord my God.”

¹⁰ So now as you see, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, for these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this promise to Moses when Israel was traveling in the wilderness. So now, here I am today, eighty-five years old! ¹¹ I am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me out. My strength for going out and for coming back from battle is the same now as it was then.

¹² So now, give me this place in the hill country that the Lord promised that day. Even though you heard on that day that the Anakites are there, as well as large fortified cities, perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, just as the Lord said.