Joshua 14:8-15

14:8 My countrymen ¹  who accompanied ²  me frightened the people, ³  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁴  14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: ⁵  ‘Surely the land on which you walked ⁶  will belong to you and your descendants permanently, ⁷  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. ⁸  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. ⁹  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer ¹⁰  them, as the Lord promised.” 14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. ¹¹  14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ¹²  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel. 14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite. ¹³ ) Then the land was free of war.

[14:8]  ¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[14:8]  ² tn Heb “went up with.”

[14:8]  ³ tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

[14:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “swore an oath.”

[14:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

[14:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”

[14:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”

[14:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

[14:12]  ¹⁴ tn Or “will dispossess.”

[14:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”

[14:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

[14:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”