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
1 will possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:36
1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh;
2 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.”
3
Joshua 14:9-14
14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise:
4 ‘Surely the land on which you walked
5 will belong to you and your descendants permanently,
6 for you remained loyal to the
Lord your God.’
14:10 So now, look, the
Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the
Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.
14:11 Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.
7
14:12 Now, assign me this hill country which the
Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities.
8 But, assuming the
Lord is with me, I will conquer
9 them, as the
Lord promised.”
14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.
10
14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day
11 because he remained loyal to the
Lord God of Israel.
Joshua 15:13-14
15:13 Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.) 12
15:14 Caleb drove out 13 from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.
Joshua 21:11-12
21:11 They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.
21:12 (Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)
1 tn Heb “seed.”
2 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).
3 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.
4 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
5 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
6 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
7 tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”
8 tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”
9 tn Or “will dispossess.”
10 tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”
11 tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”
12 tn Heb “To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah according to the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath Arba (the father of Anak), it is Hebron.”
13 tn Or “dispossessed.”