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15 And she said to him, “Give me a gift;[a] you have given me the land of the Negev,[b] and give me also a spring of water.” And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring.[c]

16 The descendants[d] of Hobab the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the descendants[e] of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev[f] near Arad. And they went[g] and settled with the people. 17 And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites[h] inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:15 Literally “blessing”
  2. Judges 1:15 An arid region south of the Judaean hills
  3. Judges 1:15 Judges 1:11–15 is almost identical to Joshua 15:13–19
  4. Judges 1:16 Or “sons/children”
  5. Judges 1:16 Or “sons/children”
  6. Judges 1:16 An arid region south of the Judaean hills
  7. Judges 1:16 Hebrew “he went”
  8. Judges 1:17 Hebrew “Canaanite”