Joshua 15:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife to the one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it.”

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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

She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmanna h, Sheba the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. The daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

Joshua 15:15

Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir (now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher).

Joshua 15:17

So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s kinsman, captured it, so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.

Judges 1:6

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

1 Samuel 17:25

All the men of Israel were saying, “Have you seen this man who keeps coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel! The man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, give him his daughter in marriage and make his father’s house tax-free in Israel!”