Joshua 14:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ As it happened, my fellow Israelis who went up with me terrified the people, but I fully followed the Lord my God. ⁹ Moses made a promise to me on that day when he said, ‘The land that you covered on foot will certainly be your inheritance. It will belong to your descendants forever, because you have fully followed the Lord my God.’

¹⁰ “Look how^[a] the Lord has let me survive, as you can see, these 45 years since the time when the Lord said this through Moses, while Israel was wandering through the wilderness. And look! I’m here today—my eighty-fifth birthday!