Caleb

Caleb was a Jew from the time of the wilderness wanderings of the Israelites after the Exodus from Egypt. According to the Old Testament of the Bible, he was a son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah, the southern kingdom later, which was then ruled by the descendants of David. He is the Book of Numbers 13.1 to 14.38 EU as a model for their loyalty to Yahweh promises that refused the rest of the people of Israel continuously and betrayed.

After the Numbers narrative Caleb was one of the spies which Moses from the wilderness of Paran (now Negev ) sent in from the populated land of Canaan. While the other scouts the people frightened by the rumor that the country was impregnable and inhabited by giants who dared Caleb next to Joshua as the only encouraging the people to trust firmly on the promise of their God in the conquest, and has been for almost stoned. It was only a manifestation of God had saved him and restored the authority of Moses. While God then denied most of the desert generation of Israel to take the land of Canaan, Caleb received commitments:

45 years later this promise was fulfilled after the book of Joshua, Caleb succeeded to a great age, the conquest of Hebron, an ancient Canaanite city in the mountains (Joshua 14.6-15 LUT). Caleb is the progenitor of the Kalebiten who settled in the area of Hebron.