New English Translation

Joshua 15:14-25 New English Translation (NET)

14. Caleb drove out from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

15. From there he attacked the people of Debir. (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

16. Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

17. When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.

18. One time Acsah came and charmed her father so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

19. She answered, “Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

20. This is the land assigned to the tribe of Judah by its clans:

21. These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

22. Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

23. Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

24. Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

25. Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor),