Judges 1:14

14 When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel^[a] to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her,^[b] "What do you want?"

Judges 1:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 1:14

And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved
him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off [her] ass;
and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?] (See Gill on Joshua 15:18).

Judges 1:14 In-Context

12 Caleb said, "Whoever strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife."

13 So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's youngest brother, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as his wife.

14 When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want?"

15 She answered him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water also." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

16 The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.

Footnotes

• [a]. LXX reads arrived, he pressured her
• [b]. LXX reads She grumbled while on the donkey, and she cried out from the donkey, "Into the southland you sent me out," and Caleb said