Caleb (Joshua's compatriot living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness and Conquest)

Caleb was one of twelve spies Moses sent to scout Canaan, and along with Joshua he was the only one who returned urging Israel to trust God and take the land, a minority report that cost the rest of that generation forty years of wandering as punishment for their fear. Because of his faith, Caleb was promised he would personally enter the promised land, and at eighty-five, decades later, he asked for and received the hill country of Hebron specifically because it was still occupied by fortified cities and giants, wanting the hardest ground rather than the easiest.