Judges 1:14

14 When she came [to him], she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"^[a]

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 And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife."

13 Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife.

14 When she came [to him], she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"

15 And she said to him, "Give me {a gift}; you have given me the land of the Negev, and give me also a spring of water." And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring.

16 The descendants of Hobab [the] Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the descendants of Judah from the city of palms [into] the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in [the] Negev [near] Arad. And they went and settled with the people.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "What [is] for you?"