¹² Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^(A) You yourself heard then that the Anakites^(B) were there and their cities were large and fortified,^(C) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

¹³ Then Joshua blessed^(D) Caleb son of Jephunneh^(E) and gave him Hebron^(F) as his inheritance.^{(G) 14} So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.^(H)