8. The other men who went with me told the people things that made them afraid. But I fully believed the Lord would allow us to take the land.
9. So that day Moses promised me, ‘The land where you went will become your land. Your children will own it forever. I will give you that land because you fully believed in the Lord, my God.’
10. “Now then, the Lord has kept his promise. He has kept me alive for 45 years from the time he said this to Moses. During that time we all wandered in the desert. Now here I am, 85 years old.
11. I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. I am just as ready to fight now as I was then.
12. So give me the mountain country the Lord promised me that day long ago. Back then you heard that the Anakite people lived there. And the cities were large and well protected. But now with the Lord helping me, I will force them out, just as the Lord said.”
13. Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh. He gave him the city of Hebron as his own.
14. And Hebron still belongs to the family of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. It still belongs to his people because he had faith. He obeyed the Lord, the God of Israel.
15. (In the past it was called Kiriath Arba. It was named for the greatest man among the Anakites. He was named Arba.)After this there was peace in the land.