Joshua 15:14-28

The Allotment for Judah

14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, c Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. 15 And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. d Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher. 16 And Caleb said, "Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." 17 e And Othniel the son of Kenaz, f the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 18 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?" 19 She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans. 21 The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, g Eder, Jagur, 22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 24 h Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, 25 Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor), 26 Amam, Shema, Moladah, 27 Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet, 28 Hazar-shual, i Beersheba, Biziothiah,

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 13:22
    They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
    Judges 1:10
    And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
    Judges 1:20
    And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.
  2. Cross References
    Judges 1:11
    From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.
    Joshua 15:49
    Dannah, Kiriath-sannah ( that is, Debir).
  3. Cross References
    Judges 1:13
    And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 14:6
    Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
    Joshua 14:13
    Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 35:21
    Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
  6. Cross References
    1 Samuel 23:14 - 15
    And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
    1 Samuel 23:19
    Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
    1 Samuel 23:24
    And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.
    1 Samuel 26:1 - 2
    Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 21:31
    Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
    Genesis 26:23
    From there he went up to Beersheba.
    Genesis 26:33
    He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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