Kenizzite Jephunnas son of Caleb

Answer 1

Caleb was the son of Jephunneh, Kenizzites. One of the only 2 survivors to see the promised land from the original peoples of the Exodus. The other being Joshua.

He is also the only gentile convert or non Israelite to receive part of the Promised Land as an inheritance. The Hebron mountain area.

Was in recognition for his faithfulness to follow the one True God and for his honesty reguarding what he had seen in The Promised Land along with Joshua.

"But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it. (NASB ©1995)

Numbers 14:6 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in the wilderness." And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 32:12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the LORD fully.'

Deuteronomy 1:36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the LORD fully.'

Joshua 14:6 Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word which the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh-barnea. (NASB ©1995)