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NASB | Joshua 15:19 Then she said, "Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water." So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Joshua 15:19 Achsah answered, "Give me a blessing; since you have given me the [dry] land of the Negev (South country), give me springs of water, too." So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. |
Bible Question:
My question is regaurding Achsah daughter of Caleb. In the JPS TaNaKh Joshua 15:19 She replied, "Give me a present; for you have given me away as a Negeb-land; so give me springs of water." And he gave her Upper and Lower Golloth. The notes says Negeb-land refers to giving her away with out dowry. The NKJV makes it seem she already has land in the Negeb. I am looking for supporting verses for either interpertation. |
Bible Answer: Greetings Lunaticxx! Here is what Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament says about this verse. (Note: Hebrew words had to be removed for posting). ******** Jos_15:18-19 When Achzah had become his wife (“as she came,” i.e., on her coming to Othniel, to live with him as wife), she urged him to ask her father for a field. “A field:” in Jdg_1:14 we find “the field,” as the writer had the particular field in his mind. This was not “the field belonging to the town of Debir” (Knobel), for Othniel had no need to ask for this, as it naturally went with the town, but a piece of land that could be cultivated, or, as is shown in what follows, one that was not deficient in springs of water. What Othniel did is not stated, but only what Achzah did to attain her end, possibly because her husband could not make up his mind to present the request to her father. She sprang from the ass upon which she had ridden when her father brought her to Othniel. , which only occurs again in Jdg_4:21, and in the parallel passage, Jdg_1:14, is hardly connected with , to be lowly or humble (Ges.); the primary meaning is rather that suggested by Fürst, to force one's self, to press away, or further; and hence in this case the meaning is, to spring down quickly from the animal she had ridden, like in Gen_24:64. Alighting from an animal was a special sign of reverence, from which Caleb inferred that his daughter had some particular request to make of him, and therefore asked her what she wanted: “What is to thee?” or, “What wilt thou?” She then asked him for a blessing (as in 2Ki_5:15); “for,” she added, “thou hast given me into barren land.” (rendered a south land) is accus. loci; so that negeb is not to be taken as a proper name, signifying the southernmost district of Canaan (as in Jos_15:21, etc.), but as an appellative, “the dry or arid land,” as in Psa_126:4. “Give me springs of water,” i.e., a piece of land with springs of water in it. Caleb then gave her the “upper springs and lower springs:” this was the name given to a tract of land in which there were springs on both the higher and lower ground. It must have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Debir, though, like the town itself, it has not yet been found. ************* I hope this helps! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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