LORD, I depend on you for protection. Don't let me be disappointed.

You always do what is right, so come and save me. Listen to me and save me.

Be my Rock, my place of safety. Be my fortress, and protect me! You are my Rock and my protection.

My God, save me from wicked people. Save me from cruel, evil people.

Lord GOD, you are my hope. I have trusted you since I was a young boy.

I depended on you even before I was born. I relied on you even in my mother's womb.

I have always prayed to you.

You are my source of strength, so I have been an example to others.

But I tell you the truth. As surely as I live and as surely as the Glory of the LORD fills the whole earth, I make you this promise: None of the people I led out of Egypt will ever see the land of Canaan. They saw my glory and the great signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert. But they disobeyed me and tested me ten times. I promised their ancestors that I would give them that land. But none of those people who turned against me will ever enter that land! But my servant Caleb was different. He follows me completely. So I will bring him into the land that he has already seen, and his people will get that land.

So it is just as the Holy Spirit says: "If you hear God's voice today, don't be stubborn as you were in the past, when you turned against God. That was the day you tested God in the desert. For 40 years in the desert, your people saw what I did. But they tested me and my patience. So I was angry with them. I said, 'Their thoughts are always wrong. They have never understood my ways.' So I was angry and made a promise: 'They will never enter my place of rest.'"

So, brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has the evil thoughts that cause so much doubt that you stop following the living God. But encourage each other every day, while you still have something called "today." Help each other so that none of you will be fooled by sin and become too hard to change.

One day some people from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua at Gilgal. One of them was Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. Caleb said to Joshua, "You remember what the LORD said at Kadesh Barnea. The Lord was speaking to Moses, his servant. The Lord was talking about you and me. Moses, the LORD'S servant, sent me to look at the land where we were going. I was 40 years old at that time. When I came back, I told Moses what I thought about the land.

The other men who went with me told the people things that made them afraid. But I really believed that the LORD would allow us to take that land. So that day Moses made a promise to me. He said, 'The land where you went will become your land. Your children will own that land forever. I will give you that land because you really believed in the LORD, my God.' "Now the LORD has kept me alive for 45 more years—as he said he would. During that time we all wandered in the desert. Now, here I am, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. I am as ready to fight as I was then.

So give me the hill country that the LORD promised me that day long ago. At that time you heard that the strong Anakites lived there and the cities were very big and well protected. But now, maybe the LORD will be with me, and I will take that land just as the LORD said." Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh. Joshua gave him the city of Hebron as his own. And that city still belongs to the family of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. That land still belongs to his people because he trusted and obeyed the LORD, God of Israel.

At Gilgal.

Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite.

"You remember what the LORD said at Kadesh Barnea. The Lord was speaking to Moses, his servant. The Lord was talking about you and me.”

Caleb was 40 years old at that time.

Caleb told Moses what he thought about the land.

The other men told things that made people afraid.

Caleb really believed that the LORD would allow them to take that land.

He said, 'The land where you went will become your land. Your children will own that land forever. I will give you that land because you really believed in the LORD, my God.'

Caleb said, “Here I am, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. I am as ready to fight as I was then.

Give me the hill country that the LORD promised me that day long ago.

But now, maybe the LORD will be with me, and I will take that land just as the LORD said."

Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh. Joshua gave him the city of Hebron as his own.

Hebron city still belonged to the family of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. That land still belongs to his people because he trusted and obeyed the LORD, God of Israel.