Joshua's compatriot living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness and Conquest
Caleb
Jephunneh’s son, of the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan (Numbers 13:6). He and Joshua alone brought back a faithful report, and of him God said, “my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land” (Numbers 14:6–9, 24). At 85, forty-five years later, he asked Joshua for the hill country of Hebron, still as strong as when Moses sent him out, and drove out the Anakim from it (Joshua 14:6–15). His nephew Othniel won his daughter Achsah’s hand by taking Kiriath Sepher (Joshua 15:13–19).
Family
- Father
- Jephunneh
- Children
- Achsah, Iru, Elah, Naam