Joshua 15:15-63 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:13-19

The historian seems pleased with every occasion to make mention of Caleb and to do him honour, because he had honoured God in following him fully. Observe, I. The grant Joshua made him of the mountain of Hebron for his inheritance is here repeated (Josh. 15:13), and it is said to be given him. 1. According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua. Though Caleb, in his petition, had made out a very good title to it by promise, yet, because God had ordered Joshua to divide the land by lot, he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:20-63

We have here a list of the several cities that fell within the lot of the tribe of Judah, which are mentioned by name, that they might know their own, and both keep it and keep to it, and might neither through cowardice nor sloth lose the possession of what was their own. I. The cities are here named, and numbered in several classes, which they then could account for the reason of better than we can now. Here are, 1. Some that are said to be the uttermost cities towards the coast of Edom,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:15

And he went up from thence to the inhabitants of Debir ,.... Having conquered Hebron, and got possession of that, Caleb marched to Debir, a city not many miles from Hebron, and seems to have been in the country, and part of the land, which was given him; of which See Gill on Joshua 10:38 , and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher ; or "the city of books"; either a place of literature, a sort of an academy, or where was a public library; the Targum calls it Kirjatharche, or the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:16

And Caleb said, he that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it ,.... Which he ordered to be proclaimed through the army that was under his command; and which was done not so much on the account of the difficulty of taking the place, through the number of the inhabitants of it, and its fortifications, which it seems had fallen again into the hands of the Canaanites, since it was taken by Joshua; nor through inactivity, diffidence, and timorousness in himself; but that others, who were officers,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:17

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it ,.... The relation of Othniel to Caleb is a little intricate, and, as it is understood, occasions objections to the marriage of Caleb's daughter to him; it seems, at first sight, that he was Caleb's own brother, a younger brother, and so uncle to his daughter, and such marriages were forbidden, Leviticus 18:14 . Jarchi thinks he was the brother of Caleb by his mother's side; Kimchi, both by father and mother's side; but not to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:18

And it came to pass, as she came unto him ,.... To her husband, being conducted from her father's house to his, in order to consummate the marriage, just as we may suppose when she was got to her husband's house, before she lighted off the beast on which she rode: that she moved him to ask of her father a field ; or persuaded him to make such a request to him, or that he would give her leave to make it; that is, Achsah put Othniel her espoused husband upon it, to entreat her father... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:19

Who answered, give me a blessing ,.... By which she meant not a paternal benediction, or that he would wish and pray for a blessing on her; nor food, or a maintenance, as Jarchi, that her husband would provide for her; but rather an inheritance or possession, as the Targum; or a gift, as Abendana, a present, or something over and above what he had already given her; or an addition to her portion, as Kimchi: the word is sometimes used for a fish pool, as well as a blessing, and so glances at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:20

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah, according to their families. The general description of which is given in the preceding part of the chapter, as the particular cities belonging to it are enumerated in the following part; the account of the gift of Hebron to Caleb, and the taking of Debir by Othniel, with the request of Achsah, and the grant of it, are inserted between them, and stand as it were in a parenthesis. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:21

And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah ,.... That is, those cities which were the outward part of the tribe of Judah, the southern border of it; for the midland cities are not in this part, of the description reckoned, which reaches from hence to the end of Joshua 15:32 , toward the coast of Edom southward : it begins about the dead sea, and goes on in that part of the land of Canaan which bordered on Idumea, and so proceeds on westward towards Gaza, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:22

And Kinah ,.... Of this city we read of nowhere else: and Dimonah ; the second city is thought to be the same with Dibon, Nehemiah 11:25 ; and Jerom F2 Comment. in Esaiam, c. 15. 9. observes, that a place elsewhere was indifferently called in his time Dibon and Dimon; and Adadah ; the last of these cities is nowhere met with. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:13-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:20-63

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:22

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