Judges 1:15

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

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 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.

17 And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "blessing"
• [b]. An arid region south of the Judaean hills
• [c]. Judges 1:11-15 is almost identical to Joshua 15:13-19