Caleb’s Request and Inheritance
6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know lwhat the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old mwhen Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and nI brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But omy brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I pwholly followed the Lord my God. 9 And qMoses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely rthe land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-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 eighty-five years old. 11 I am sstill 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 for going and coming. 12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for tyou heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and uI shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”
13 Then vJoshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron wto Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.1 (Arba2 was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had xrest from war.
13 According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, ahe gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak). 14 And Caleb drove out from there the bthree sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. 15 cAnd he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.
10 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since vthe lot fell to them first. 11 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it. 12 But the fields of the city and its villages had been wgiven to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
