Joshua 15:16 Parallel Translations

Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife to anyone who attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

ASV:

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

BBE:

And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.

DBY:

And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

ERV:

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

JPS:

And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.'

WBS:

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife.

WEB:

Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."

YLT:

And Caleb saith, 'He who smiteth Kirjath-Sephar, and hath captured it -- I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.'

Joshua 15:16 Cross References

XREF:

Joshua 15:15 Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.

Joshua 15:17 Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

15:16 To wife - Which is to be understood with some conditions, as, if he were one who could marry her by God's law; and if she were willing; for though parents had a great power over their children, they could not force them to marry any person against their own wills. He might otherwise be an unfit and unworthy person; but this was a divine impulse, that Othniel's valour might be more manifest, and so the way prepared for his future government of the people, Judg 3:9.

MHC:

15:13-19 Achsah obtained some land by Caleb's free grant. He gave her a south land. Land indeed, but a south land, dry and apt to be parched. She obtained more, on her request, and he gave the upper and the nether springs. Those who understand it but of one field, watered both with the rain of heaven, and the springs that issued out of the earth, countenance the allusion commonly made to this, when we pray for spiritual and heavenly blessings which relate to our souls, as blessings of the upper springs, and those which relate to the body and the life that now is, as blessings of the nether springs. All the blessings, both of the upper and the nether springs, belong to the children of God. As related to Christ, they have them freely given of the Father, for the lot of their inheritance.

CONC:

Achsah Acsah Attacks Caleb Captured Captures Daughter Kiriath Kiriath-sepher Kir'iath-se'pher Kirjath-sephar Kirjathsepher Kirjath-sepher Marriage Overcomes Sepher Smites Smiteth Strikes Takes Taketh Wife

Achsah Acsah Attacks Caleb Captured Captures Daughter Kiriath Kiriath-Sepher Kir'iath-Se'pher Kirjathsepher Kirjath-Sepher Marriage Sepher Smites Smiteth Strikes Wife

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