Joshua 15:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ And Kalĕḇ said, “He who strikes Qiryath Sĕpher and shall capture it, to him I shall give Aḵsah my daughter as wife.”

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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

And she bore Sha‛aph the father of Maḏmannah, Shewa the father of Maḵbĕna and the father of Giḇ‛a. And the daughter of Kalĕḇ was Aḵsah.

Joshua 15:15

And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Deḇir, and the name of Deḇir formerly was Qiryath Sĕpher.

Joshua 15:17

And Othni’ĕl son of Qenaz, the brother of Kalĕḇ, did capture it, so he gave him Aḵsah his daughter as wife.

Judges 1:6

But Aḏoni-Ḇezeq fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

1 Samuel 17:25

And the men of Yisra’ĕl said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? For he has come up to reproach Yisra’ĕl. And it shall be that the man who strikes him, the sovereign is going to enrich him with great riches, and give him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption in Yisra’ĕl.”