8. My fellow scouts who went up with me made the people’s confidence melt away, but I was completely loyal to the Lord, my God.
9. On that occasion Moses swore this oath, ‘The land where you have set foot shall become your heritage and that of your descendants forever, because you have been completely loyal to the Lord, my God.’
10. Now, as he promised, the Lord has preserved me these forty-five years since the Lord spoke thus to Moses while Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now I am eighty-five years old,
11. but I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me forth, with no less vigor whether it be for war or for any other tasks.
12. Now give me this mountain region which the Lord promised me that day, as you yourself heard. True, the Anakim are there, with large fortified cities, but if the Lord is with me I shall be able to dispossess them, as the Lord promised.”
13. Joshua blessed Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and gave him Hebron as his heritage.
14. Therefore Hebron remains the heritage of the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, to the present day, because he was completely loyal to the Lord, the God of Israel.
15. Hebron was formerly called Kiriath-arba, for Arba, the greatest among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.