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The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea.[a] I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report.[b] My countrymen[c] who accompanied[d] me frightened the people,[e] but I remained loyal to the Lord my God.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 14:6 tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.
  2. Joshua 14:7 tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”
  3. Joshua 14:8 tn Heb “brothers.”
  4. Joshua 14:8 tn Heb “went up with.”
  5. Joshua 14:8 tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”
  6. Joshua 14:8 tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.