Joshua 15:16

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Caleb said, 'Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him my daughter Achsah as his wife.'

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  • Judg 1:6 : 6 Adoni-bezek fled, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
  • Judg 1:12-13 : 12 Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher." 13 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it, and Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.

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  • Judg 1:10-15
    6 verses
    98%

    10 Judah also attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11 From there, they went against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

    12 Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher."

    13 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it, and Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.

    14 When she came to him, she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. She got down from her donkey, and Caleb asked her, "What do you want?"

    15 She answered him, "Give me a blessing, since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water as well." So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

  • Josh 15:17-19
    3 verses
    91%

    17 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah as his wife.

    18 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from her donkey, Caleb asked her, 'What do you want?'

    19 She replied, 'Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, grant me also springs of water.' So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.

  • Josh 15:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    13 To Caleb son of Jephunneh, he was given a portion among the descendants of Judah, based on the Lord’s command to Joshua, the city of Arba (father of Anak), which is Hebron.

    14 Caleb expelled from there the three descendants of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the offspring of Anak.

    15 From there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir, which was formerly called Kiriath-sepher.

  • 1 Chr 2:48-50
    3 verses
    77%

    48 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

    49 She also bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.

    50 These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, were Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim;

  • 1 Chr 2:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 Caleb son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and Jerioth. Her sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

    19 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.

  • Josh 14:12-15
    4 verses
    73%

    12 So now give me this hill country the LORD promised me on that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakim are there and their cities are large and fortified. Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out as the LORD said.

    13 Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

    14 So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as his inheritance to this day because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

    15 Previously, Hebron had been called Kiriath Arba, named after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

  • Josh 21:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasture lands. Arba was the ancestor of the Anakites.

    12 However, the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

  • 1 Chr 6:56
    71%

    56 To the sons of Gershom, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands.

  • 1 Chr 2:46
    71%

    46 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.

  • Judg 1:20
    70%

    20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised, and Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from it.

  • 1 Chr 7:15
    68%

    15 Makir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim. His sister’s name was Maacah. Another descendant was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38 Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

  • Num 13:6
    68%

    6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

  • Deut 1:36
    68%

    36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he walked, because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD.

  • Judg 15:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 After some time, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing a young goat as a gift. He said, "Let me go into my wife's room," but her father would not let him enter.

    2 Her father said, "I thought you completely hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead."

  • Josh 14:6
    67%

    6 The descendants of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, 'You know the word the LORD spoke to Moses, the man of God, about you and me in Kadesh Barnea.'

  • 1 Chr 2:42
    67%

    42 The sons of Caleb, brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.

  • 1 Sam 18:17
    67%

    17 Saul said to David, 'Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage, but you must serve me bravely and fight the LORD’s battles.' For Saul thought, 'I will not raise my hand against him; let the Philistines do that.'

  • Num 36:8
    67%

    8 'Every daughter who inherits land from the tribes of Israel must marry within a clan of her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of their ancestors.'

  • Num 14:24
    67%

    24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

  • Gen 11:29
    66%

    29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

  • Judg 14:2-3
    2 verses
    66%

    2 He returned and told his father and mother, 'I have seen a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. Now get her for me as a wife.'

    3 But his father and mother said to him, 'Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives or among all our people, that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?' Yet Samson said to his father, 'Get her for me, because she is right in my eyes.'

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
    66%

    16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

  • Num 34:19
    66%

    19 These are the names of the leaders: From the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.

  • Deut 22:16
    66%

    16 The father shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her.'

  • 1 Chr 2:21
    66%

    21 Later, Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead. He married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    66%

    40 David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, 'David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.'

  • Josh 15:49
    65%

    49 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir).

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