CALEB: THE LOYAL SERVANT
“Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea…And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel .” (Joshua 14:6, 13, 14). One of my favorite individuals in all of scripture is the Old Testament Bible character Caleb. You may remember that he and Joshua were among the twelve men that Moses selected to send into Canaan to spy out the land before the armies of Israel went in to claim it. Of the twelve spies, only Caleb and Joshua had a positive report about the Promised Land that God had said was theirs. The other ten spies had many things to say about the land, but most of them were negative. Caleb’s name in H