SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:19
Y ella respondió: Dame una bendición; pues que me has dado tierra de secadal, dame también fuentes de aguas. El entonces le dio las fuentes de arriba, y las de abajo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:19
Verse 19. Give me a blessing] Do me an act of kindness. Grant me a particular request. Thou hast given me a south land] Which was probably dry, or very ill, watered.
Give me also springs of water.] Let me have some fields in which there are brooks or wells already digged.
The upper springs, and the nether springs.] He gave her even more than she requested; he gave her a district among the mountains and another in the plains well situated and well watered. There are several difficulties in this account, with which I shall not trouble the reader. What is mentioned above appears to be the sense.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. Who answered, give me a blessing , etc.] 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 what she had in view, pools of water, or a well watered land: for thou hast given me a south land ; a dry land, as the Jewish writers f323 generally interpret this word, otherwise all the land belonging to the tribe of Judah was south land, and Caleb could give her no other; but Debir, as Hebron was, was in the hill country, was mountainous and so dry, and wanted watering: give me also springs of water ; she means land in which there were springs of water; for unless she was possessed of the land in which they were, she would have no command of the springs, and so have little or no use of them: and he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs ; such as were in the higher grounds, and such as were in the lower ones, that she might have a sufficiency to water all her lands and fields; or as she moved her husband to ask a field, and he put her on doing the same, Caleb gave her a field, in the upper part of which were springs, and also in the lower part; though he seems to have given more than she requested.
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
ותאמר 559 תנה 5414 לי ברכה 1293 כי 3588 ארץ 776 הנגב 5045 נתתני 5414 ונתתה 5414 לי גלת 1543 מים 4325 ויתן 5414 לה את 853 גלת 1543 עליות 5942 ואת 853 גלת 1543 תחתיות׃ 8482
