11 (A)From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir was formerly Kirjath Sepher.)

12 (B)Then Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give my daughter Achsah as wife.” 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, (C)Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as wife. 14 (D)Now it happened, when she came to him, that [a]she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?” 15 So she said to him, (E)“Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.”

And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:14 LXX, Vg. he urged her

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