SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:16
Y dijo Caleb: Al que hiriere a Quiriat-sefer, y la tomare, yo le daré a mi hija Acsa por mujer.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:16
Verse 16. Will I give Achsah my daughter] In ancient times fathers assumed an absolute right over their children, especially in disposing of them in marriage; and it was customary for a king or great man to promise his daughter in marriage to him who should take a city, kill an enemy, &c. So Saul promised his daughter in marriage to him who should kill Goliath, 1 Sam. xvii. 25; and Caleb offers his on this occasion to him who should take Kirjath-sepher. Profane writers furnish many similar examples.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And Caleb said, he that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it , etc.] 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, and men of valour under him, might gather some laurels as well as himself; and chiefly being under a divine impulse, he ordered this declaration to be made, whereby his brother Othniel, who was to be a judge in Israel, might appear a great man, and fit for such an office; and as an encouragement, he promises as follows: to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife ; and to be married into the family of the chief prince of the tribe of Judah was a very great honour, as well as no doubt a very large dowry might be expected, and was given with her, and very probably the city of Debir was promised that should be taken.
This Achsah seems to be a daughter of Caleb by a concubine, ( Chronicles 2:48,49).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-19 - Achsah obtained some land by Caleb's free grant. He gave her a sout land. Land indeed, but a south land, dry and apt to be parched. Sh obtained more, on her request, and he gave the upper and the nethe 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, a blessings of the upper springs, and those which relate to the body an 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.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 כלב 3612 אשׁר 834 יכה 5221 את 853 קרית ספר 7158 ולכדה 3920 ונתתי 5414 לו את 853 עכסה 5915 בתי 1323 לאשׁה׃ 802
