Joshua 14:6–13

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

⁶Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^rKenizzite said to him, “You know ^swhat the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. ⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^tsent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸But ^umy brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. ⁹And Moses swore on that day, saying, ^v‘Surely the land ^won which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ^xjust as he said, these ^yforty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day ^yeighty-five years old. ^11zI am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and ^afor going and coming. ¹²So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the ^bAnakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

¹³Then Joshua ^cblessed him, and he gave ^dHebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.