Decision: Caleb

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  1. Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes …
  2. But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
  3. …those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
  4. Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
  5. …except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
  6. Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.