Joshua 14:9-15

⁹At that time Moses made a solemn promise, telling me, ‘The land where you have walked will belong to you and your children forever, because you faithfully followed the Lord my God.’

¹⁰Look—the Lord has kept me alive these past forty-five years as he promised, from the time the Lord told Moses this while Israel was wandering in the wilderness. Now I'm eighty-five,

¹¹but I'm still as strong today as when Moses sent me out. I'm as strong and ready for battle or for whatever may come as I was then.

¹²So give me the hill country that the Lord spoke about. You heard at that time about the descendants of Anak who lived there in large, fortified towns. If the Lord is with me I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

¹³So Joshua blessed Caleb and granted him ownership of Hebron.

¹⁴So Hebron belonged to Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, from that day to this because he had faithfully followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹⁵(Hebron was formerly called Kiriath-arba, named after a great leader of the descendants of Anak.) And the land was at peace.