Caleb Claims Hebron

The words

1. Achsah

   After marrying Othniel, Achsah asks her father Caleb for springs of water to accompany the south land he has given her.

   Joshua 15:16–19 (opens a new tab)

2. Anakim

   Caleb recalls the Anakims living among the fortified cities; Joshua later names three sons of Anak whom Caleb drives from Hebron.

   Joshua 14:12 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 15:13–14 (opens a new tab)

3. Caleb

   Caleb reminds Joshua that he brought Moses his report of the land and wholly followed the LORD despite the other spies’ discouragement.

   Joshua 14:6–9 (opens a new tab)

4. Drive Out

   Caleb says he can drive out the inhabitants if the LORD is with him; the next chapter describes his expulsion of three sons of Anak.

   Joshua 14:12 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 15:14 (opens a new tab)

5. Fenced

   Caleb describes the cities as “great and fenced,” recognizing their defenses while asking for the hill country where the Anakims live.

   Joshua 14:12 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Joshua 14:12 (opens a new tab)

6. Fourscore

   Caleb gives his age as “fourscore and five,” recalling forty-five years since the promise and his earlier mission at forty.

   Joshua 14:10 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 14:7 (opens a new tab)

7. Giants

   Deuteronomy calls the Emims “giants, as the Anakims”; Caleb’s request concerns the hill country where he says the Anakims live.

   Deuteronomy 2:10–11 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 14:12 (opens a new tab)

8. Hebron

   Joshua blesses Caleb and gives him Hebron as an inheritance, explaining that Caleb wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

   Did you know?

   Joshua later distinguishes Hebron’s city, assigned to Aaron’s descendants, from its fields and villages, which remain Caleb’s possession.

   Joshua 14:13–14 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 21:10–13 (opens a new tab)

9. Inheritance

   Caleb recalls Moses’s oath that the land his feet had trodden would belong to him and his children because he wholly followed the LORD.

   Joshua 14:9 (opens a new tab)

10. Kadesh-barnea

    Caleb recalls being sent from Kadesh-barnea by Moses to scout the land when he was forty, before the wilderness years.

    Joshua 14:6–7 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 14:10 (opens a new tab)

11. Kenezite

    Kenizzite in the NET Bible.

    Joshua identifies Caleb as the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, both when he approaches Joshua and when his inheritance is explained.

    Joshua 14:6 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 14:14 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Joshua 14:6,15 (opens a new tab)

12. Kirjath-arba

    Kiriath Arba in the NET Bible.

    Joshua gives Kirjath-arba as Hebron’s earlier name and describes Arba as a great man among the Anakims.

    Joshua 14:15 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: Joshua 14:6,15 (opens a new tab)

13. Othniel

    Caleb promises Achsah in marriage to whoever captures Kirjathsepher; Othniel takes the city, also called Debir, and marries her.

    Joshua 15:15–17 (opens a new tab)

14. Springs

    Caleb gives Achsah both upper and lower springs after she asks for water to accompany the land he has given her.

    Did you know?

    The opening chapter of Judges also tells Achsah’s request, again naming the upper and lower springs Caleb gives her.

    Joshua 15:19 (opens a new tab) · Judges 1:12–15 (opens a new tab)

15. Strong

    At eighty-five, Caleb says he is still as strong for war as when Moses sent him to scout the land forty-five years earlier.

    Joshua 14:7 (opens a new tab) · Joshua 14:10–11 (opens a new tab)