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What does Judges 1:12 mean?
"Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”"
— Judges 1:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)
Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
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