8. The other spies said things that made our people afraid, but I completely trusted the Lord God.
9. The same day I came back, Moses told me, “Since you were faithful to the Lord God, I promise that the places where you went as a spy will belong to you and your descendants for ever.”
10. Joshua, it was forty-five years ago that the Lord told Moses to make that promise, and now I am eighty-five. Even though Israel has moved from place to place in the desert, the Lord has kept me alive all this time as he said he would.
11. I'm just as strong today as I was then, and I can still fight as well in battle.
12. So I'm asking you for the hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You were there. You heard the other spies talk about that part of the hill country and the large, walled towns where the Anakim live. But perhaps the Lord will help me take their land, just as he promised.
13. Joshua prayed that God would help Caleb, then he gave Hebron to Caleb and his descendants.
14. And Hebron still belongs to Caleb's descendants, because he was faithful to the Lord God of Israel.
15. Hebron used to be called Arba's Town, because Arba had been one of the greatest of the Anakim.There was peace in the land.