8. My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I wholeheartedly followed after the Lord my God.
9. On that day Moses swore an oath, ‘The land on which your foot treads shall be your inheritance, for your descendants perpetually, because you completely followed after the Lord my God.’
10. “Now, the Lord has kept me alive, just as He said, for forty-five years, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
11. I am still just as strong today as I was on the day that Moses sent me. My strength now is just like my strength then, both for battle and for going out and returning.
12. So now, give me this hill country that the Lord spoke about on that day. That day you heard that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out, as the Lord said.”
13. Then Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
14. Therefore Hebron became an inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he completely followed after the Lord, the God of Israel.
15. The former name of Hebron was Kiriath Arba. Arba was the greatest man among the Anakites.Then the land had rest from war.