6Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses, the man of God, concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea. 7Forty years old was I when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him my honest report. 8Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9And Moses swore on that day, saying, “Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and for your children's forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God. 10And now the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty five years, since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now I am this day eighty-five years old. 11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 12Now, therefore, give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified; if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. 13And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb for an inheritance. 14Hebron, therefore, became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, unto this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15And the name of Hebron before that was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the Dead Sea at the farthest part of the Jordan;