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Numbers 14:22-24
“Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I
performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these
ten times and have not listened to My voice, shall by no means see the land
which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has
followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his
descendants shall take possession of it.”

Caleb made the good confession. He spoke no words of unbelief. He was
careful to insure that his words were in accordance with Yahweh’s promises, and
he and his descendants reaped the rewards. No enemy could stand before them.
Caleb continued to make a good confession during the entire forty years that he
waited in the wilderness for his generation to die. As he maintained a good
confession he grew strong. We read the following concerning him.

Joshua 14:10-11
"Now behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five
years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel
walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.
I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength
was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.”

Caleb’s strength for warfare had not diminished even when he was 85 years
old. When the Israelites went into the land, Caleb put many who were much
younger to shame. He had spent forty years making a positive confession of
Yahweh’s power to defeat His enemies. He was completely transformed by the
words he spoke, and the result was that he did greater exploits than any other man
when he entered the land.
Yahweh had promised Caleb that he would be able to choose any part of the
land he desired when Israel entered in, for he had believed God. There was a very
choice part of the land. It was hill country and had streams and fields and was very
fertile. It was consequently also very well defended, and the greatest of the giants
dwelt in this area. Yet Caleb went to Joshua and said this was the very portion he
desired. He said that if Joshua would allow him to have it that he would slay the
giants that dwelt there. The Anakim lived there, and these were the giants of old.

Joshua 14:12-15
Now then, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day,
for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified
cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will drive them out as
Yahweh has spoken." So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the
son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore, Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day,
because he followed Yahweh God of Israel fully. Now the name of Hebron