Joshua 14:14

14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ¹  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.

Numbers 14:24

14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants ²  will possess it.

Deuteronomy 1:36

1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; ³  he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.” ⁴ 

Revelation 14:4

14:4 These are the ones who have not defiled themselves ⁵  with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,

¹ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

² tn Heb “seed.”

³ sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the Lord’s power (Num 13:6, 8, 16, 30; 14:30, 38).

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun (“me”) has been employed in the translation, since it sounds strange to an English reader for the Lord to speak about himself in third person.

⁵ tn The aorist passive verb is rendered as a reflexive (“defiled themselves”) by BDAG 657 s.v. μολύνω 2.