14 Caleb drove out athe three sons of Anak from there: bSheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
15 Then ahe went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir (formerly the name of Debir was Kirjath Sepher).
16 aAnd Caleb said, “He who1 attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife.”
17 So aOthniel the bson of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him cAchsah his daughter as wife.
18 aNow it was so, when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. So bshe dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?”
19 She answered, “Give me a ablessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
The Cities of Judah
20 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:
21 The cities at the limits of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the South, were Kabzeel, aEder, Jagur,
22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
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Commentaries:
No entry exists in John Wesley's Notes for Joshua 15:16.
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