Judges 1:15

15 And she said to him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; ^[a] give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1:15 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 1:15

And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast
given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave
her the upper springs and the nether springs.
] (See Gill on Joshua 15:19).

Judges 1:15 In-Context

13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

14 And it came to pass as she came, that she urged him to ask of her father the field; and she sprang down from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What wouldest thou?

15 And she said to him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it; and they called the name of the city Hormah.

Footnotes

• [a] Or 'the south land.'