Caleb’s Inheritance

⁶ Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and ^(A)Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning ^[a]you and me in Kadesh-barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when ^(B)Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart. ⁸ Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people ^[b]melt with fear; but ^(C)I followed Yahweh my God fully. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely ^(D)the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed Yahweh my God fully.’ ¹⁰ So now behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; so now behold, I am eighty-five years old today. ^11 (E)I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for ^(F)going out and coming in. ¹² So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that ^(G)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”

¹³ So Joshua ^(H)blessed him and ^(I)gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴ Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he fully followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁵ Now the name of Hebron was formerly ^[c]Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. ^(J)Then the land was quiet from war.