Joshua 15:16 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Joshua 15:16

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.

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Joshua 15:16-20

OTHNIEL, FOR HIS VALOR, HAS ACHSAH TO WIFE. (Joshua 15:16-20)

He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher—This offer was made as an incentive to youthful bravery (see on I Samuel 17:25); and the prize was won by Othniel, Caleb's younger brother (Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9). This was the occasion of drawing out the latent energies of him who was destined to be the first judge in Israel.

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