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And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/1.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/1.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/judges/1.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/1.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/judges/1.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/judges/1.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/1.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/judges/1.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/judges/1.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/judges/1.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/1.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/1.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/judges/1.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/judges/1.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/judges/1.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/judges/5-23.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/judges/1.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/1.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/1.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/judges/1.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/judges/1.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/judges/1.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/judges/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/judges/1.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/1.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/1.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/judges/1.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/judges/1.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/judges/1.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/judges/1.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) <span class= "bld">A blessing</span>—<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>“a present” (<a href="/genesis/33-11.htm" title="Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.">Genesis 33:11</a>).<p><span class= "bld">A south land.</span>—The word also means “a dry and barren land” (<a href="/psalms/126-4.htm" title="Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.">Psalm 126:4</a>). The LXX. read “hast given me (in marriage) into a south land.”<p><span class= "bld">Springs of water.</span>—In thus asking for the fertile land which lay at the foot of the mountain slope, she showed herself at once more provident and less bashful than her husband.<p><span class= "bld">The upper springs and the nether springs.</span>—The word here rendered <span class= "ital">“</span>springs” is <span class= "ital">gulloth, i.e., </span>“bubblings.” Probably the district for which she asked was called “the upper Gulloth” and “the lower Gulloth,” just as we have “the upper and the nether Beth-horon” (<span class= "ital">Beit-ur el-foka </span>and <span class= "ital">el-tahti</span>)<span class= "ital">. </span>The addition of “the deep green glen” to the arid mountain tract of Debir enormously increased the value of her portion. “The source of this incident,” says Dean Stanley, “was first discovered by Dr. Rosen. . . . The word <span class= "ital">gulloth </span>well applies to this beautiful rivulet. The spots are now called <span class= "ital">Ain-Nunkûr </span>and <span class= "ital">Dewîr-ban</span>, about one hour south-west of Hebron. Underneath the hill on which Debir stood is a deep valley, rich with verdure from a copious rivulet, which, rising at the crest of the glen, falls with a continuity unusual in Judean hills down to its lowest depth” (<span class= "ital">Jewish Church, </span>ii. 264, and <span class= "ital">Sin. Palest., </span>p. 165. Mr. Wilton, in his <span class= "ital">Negeb, </span>p. 16, identifies it with Kurnuil). Othniel had a son, Hathath (<a href="/1_chronicles/4-13.htm" title="And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.">1Chronicles 4:13</a>), and his posterity continued to late times (<a href="http://apocrypha.org/judith/6-15.htm" title="Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.">Judith 6:15</a>).<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/1.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>1:9-20 The Canaanites had iron chariots; but Israel had God on their side, whose chariots are thousands of angels, Ps 68:17. Yet they suffered their fears to prevail against their faith. About Caleb we read in Jos 15:16-19. The Kenites had settled in the land. Israel let them fix where they pleased, being a quiet, contented people. They that molested none, were molested by none. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/1.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Render "and the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it," etc. With regard to the capture of Jerusalem there is some obscurity. It is here said to have been taken, smitten with the edge of the sword, and burned, by the children of Judah. In <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/12-8.htm">Joshua 12:8</a>, <a href="/joshua/12-10.htm">Joshua 12:10</a> the Jebusite and the king of Jerusalem are enumerated among Joshua's conquests, but without any distinct mention of the capture of the city; and in the marginal reference we read that the Jebusites were not expelled from Jerusalem, but dwelt with the children of Judah (compare <a href="/judges/1-21.htm">Judges 1:21</a>). Further, we learn from <a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/19-10.htm">Judges 19:10-12</a> that Jerusalem was wholly a Jebusite city in the lifetime of Phinehas <a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-28.htm">Judges 20:28</a>, and so it continued until the reign of David <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-6.htm">2 Samuel 5:6-9</a>. The conclusion is that Jerusalem was only taken once, namely, at the time here described, and that this was in the lifetime of Joshua; but that the children of Judah did not occupy it in sufficient force to prevent the return of the Jebusites, who gradually recovered complete possession.<p>Set the city on fire - A phrase found only at <a href="/judges/20-48.htm">Judges 20:48</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/8-12.htm">2 Kings 8:12</a>, and <a href="/psalms/74-7.htm">Psalm 74:7</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/1.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>8. Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it—The capture of this important city, which ranks among the early incidents in the war of invasion (Jos 15:63), is here noticed to account for its being in the possession of the Judahites; and they brought Adoni-bezek thither [Jud 1:7], in order, probably, that his fate being rendered so public, might inspire terror far and wide. Similar inroads were made into the other unconquered parts of Judah's inheritance [Jud 1:9-11]. The story of Caleb's acquisition of Hebron is here repeated (Jos 15:16-19). [See on [208]Jos 15:16.]<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/1.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/1.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs. See Gill on <a href="/joshua/15-19.htm">Joshua 15:19</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/1.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/1.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">15</span>. <span class="ital">a blessing</span>] i.e. <span class="ital">a present</span> as implying good-will, cf. <a href="/genesis/33-11.htm" title="Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.">Genesis 33:11</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/25-27.htm" title="And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men that follow my lord.">1 Samuel 25:27</a> etc.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">thou hast set me in the land of the South</span>] <span class="ital">the Negeb</span> (<span class="ital"><a href="/judges/1-9.htm" title="And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelled in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.">Jdg 1:9</a></span> note), where the waterless district of Debir was situated.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">springs of water</span>] <span class="bld">Gullath-</span> or <span class="bld">Golath-maim</span>, so LXX. cod. A <a href="/joshua/15-19.htm" title="Who answered, Give me a blessing; for you have given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.">Joshua 15:19</a>, an ancient place-name, called after the springs mentioned further on: land in Palestine is valueless without springs. Gullath or Golath, pronounced Gulloth in the text, has the ending <span class="ital">ath</span> as in other old Canaanite names, e.g. Zephath, Baalath, Zarephath; the rendering ‘springs’ is conjectural; in <a href="/zechariah/4-3.htm" title="And two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side thereof.">Zechariah 4:3</a>, <a href="/1_kings/7-41.htm" title="The two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;">1 Kings 7:41</a> f. the word means ‘bowl.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">the upper springs and the nether springs</span>] <span class="bld">Gullath-illith and Gullath-taḥtith</span> (changing the plur. of the text to sing.), proper names, without the article. These must have lain between Debir and Hebron; if Debir is eḍ-Ḍâharîyeh, the springs of Seil ed-Dilbeh1[23], 7 m. N. of Dâharîyeh, answer to the requirements. They are 14 in number, feeding a stream which runs for 3 or 4 miles and does not dry up. The springs fall into three groups, and may well correspond with <span class="ital">Gullath-upper</span> and <span class="ital">Gullath-lower</span>. This attractive story was no doubt told to explain how the springs came to be in the possession of the Othnielites of Debir, when they ought by rights to belong to the clan of Caleb in Hebron; cf. the stories of the wells of Rehoboth and Beer-sheba, <a href="/context/genesis/26-22.htm" title="And he removed from there, and dig another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land....">Genesis 26:22-33</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[23] Given in the P.E.F. large Map of W. Palestine, sheet xxi.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Judges 1:15<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/1.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>After the conquest of Jerusalem, the children of Judah (together with the Simeonites, <a href="/judges/1-3.htm">Judges 1:3</a>) went down to their own possessions, to make war upon the Canaanites in the mountains, the Negeb, and the shephelah (see at <a href="/joshua/15-48.htm">Joshua 15:48</a>; <a href="/joshua/21-33.htm">Joshua 21:33</a>), and to exterminate them. They first of all conquered Hebron and Debir upon the mountains (<a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-10.htm">Judges 1:10-15</a>), as has already been related in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-14.htm">Joshua 15:14-19</a> (see the commentary on this passage). The forms עלּית and תּחתּית (<a href="/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15</a>), instead of עלּיּות and תּחתּיּות (<a href="/joshua/15-19.htm">Joshua 15:19</a>), are in the singular, and are construed with the plural form of the feminine גּלּות, because this is used in the sense of the singular, "a spring" (see Ewald, 318, a.). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/judges/1-15.htm">Judges 1:15 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../judges/1-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 1:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 1:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/1-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 1:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 1:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>