Joshua 15:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ and Caleb said, ‘Whoever attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter in marriage to whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And Caleb said, "Whoever will have struck down Kiriath-Sepher, and will have seized it, I will give to him Achsah, my daughter, as wife."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it, I will give him Axa my daughter to wife.

Joshua 15:16 Cross References

1 Chronicles 2:49

She was also the mother of Shaaph, Madmannah’s father, and of Sheva, the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.

Joshua 15:15

From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir, which used to be called Kiriath-sepher,

Joshua 15:17

So Othniel  son of Caleb’s brother, Kenaz, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as a wife.

Judges 1:6

When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

1 Samuel 17:25

Previously, an Israelite man had declared, ‘Do you see this man who keeps coming out? He comes to defy Israel. The king will make the man who kills him very rich and will give him his daughter.  The king will also make the family of that man’s father exempt from paying taxes in Israel.’