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15 She said to him, “Give me this blessing: Since you gave me land in the dry Negev, give me springs of water also.” So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

16 The descendants of the Kenite father-in-law of Moses went up with the people of Judah from the City of Palms[a] to the part of the Wilderness of Judah that was in the Negev near Arad. They went and lived there among the people.

17 The tribe of Judah went along with the tribe of Simeon, its brother tribe. Together they struck down the Canaanites who lived in Zephath. They devoted the city to destruction and named the city Hormah.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:16 Probably the area of Jericho
  2. Judges 1:17 Hormah means devoted to destruction.