Joshua 14:6–13

Caleb Inherits Hebron

⁶Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^gKenizzite said to him: “You know ^hthe word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning ⁱyou and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^jsent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. ⁸Nevertheless ^kmy brethren who went up with me made the ¹heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^lfollowed the Lord my God. ⁹So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^m‘Surely the land ⁿwhere your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^oalive, ^pas He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel ²wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. ^11qAs yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both ^rfor going out and for coming in. ¹²Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^sthe Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^tIt may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^uI shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

¹³And Joshua ^vblessed him, ^wand gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.