Joshua 14:7-15

7 For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Cades Barne to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
8 My brethren that went up with me turned away the heart of the people, but I applied my self to follow the Lord my God.
9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, The land on which thou art gone up, it shall be thy inheritance and thy children's for ever, because thou hast applied thyself to follow the Lord our God.
10 And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I this day eighty-five years old.
11 I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.
12 And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou heardest this word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Chebron to Chaleb the son of Jephone the son of Kenez for an inheritance.
14 Therefore Chebron became the inheritance of Chaleb the of Jephone the Kenezite until this day, because he followed the commandment of the Lord God of Israel.
15 And the name of Chebron before was the city Argob, it the metropolis of the Enakim: and the land rested from war.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. according to the Heb. idiom, 'fully followed.'
  • [b]. mother-cities.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.