Joshua 15:17-27

17 `Otni'el the son of Kenaz, the brother of Kalev, took it: and he gave him `Akhsah his daughter as wife.

18 It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Kalev said, What would you?

19 She said, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yehudah according to their families.

21 The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Yehudah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kavtz'el, and `Eder, and Yagur,

22 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and `Ad`adah,

23 and Kedesh, and Hatzor, and Yitnan,

24 Zif, and Telem, and Be`alot,

25 and Hazor, Hadattah, and Keriot, and Hetzron (the same is Hatzor),

26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

27 and Hatzar-Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beit-Pelet,

Joshua 15:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 15

In this chapter are related the boundaries of the lot of the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:1-12; and the assignment of Hebron to Caleb, from whence he drove out the giants, and of Debir, which was taken by Othniel his brother, to whom, on that account, he gave his daughter in marriage, who made a further request to her father, which was granted, Jos 15:13-19; and then follows an account of the several cities by name, which fell to the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:20-63.