Joshua 15:18

Joshua 15:18

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:

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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As she came - Or, as she went, namely, from her father's house to her husband's, as the manner was. She moved him - She persuaded her husband, either, That he would ask: or rather, That he would suffer her to ask, as she did. She lighted - That she might address herself to her father in an humble posture, and as a suppliant, which he understood by her gesture.

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