Judges 1:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵She answered, “I need your help. The land you gave me is in the Southern Desert, so please give me some spring-fed ponds for a water supply.”

Caleb gave her a couple of small ponds named Higher Pond and Lower Pond.^[a]

¹⁶The people who belonged to the Kenite clan were the descendants of the father-in-law of Moses. They left Jericho^[b] with the people of Judah and settled near Arad in the Southern Desert of Judah not far from the Amalekites.^[c]

¹⁷Judah's army helped Simeon's army attack the Canaanites who lived at Zephath. They completely destroyed^[d] the town and renamed it Hormah.^[e]

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Footnotes

1.15 spring-fed ponds … small ponds … Higher Pond and Lower Pond: Or “wells … wells … Higher Well and Lower Well.”
1.16 Jericho: The Hebrew text has “Town of Palm Trees,” another name for Jericho.
1.16 not far … Amalekites: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
1.17 completely destroyed: The Hebrew word means that the town was given completely to the Lord, and since it could not be used for normal purposes anymore, it had to be destroyed.
1.17 Hormah: In Hebrew “Hormah” sounds like “completely destroyed.”