“Kalev said, “To whoever overpowers Kiryat-Sefer and captures it I will give my daughter Akhsah as his wife.” Otni’el the son of K’naz, Kalev’s brother, captured it; so he gave him ‘Akhsah his daughter as his wife.  After becoming his wife, she persuaded him to ask her father to give them a field; when she […]

“To Kalev the son of Y’funeh he gave a portion with the descendants of Y’hudah, as Adonai had ordered Y’hoshua, namely, Kiryat-Arba (Arba was the father of the ‘Anak), also called Hevron.”-Joshua 15:13 From verse 13, we’re plunged right back into the history of Caleb. It’s made clear to us that the land he was […]

“As for the west border, the Great Sea was its border. These were the borders of the territory of the descendants of Y’hudah, by clans.”-Joshua 15:12 There’s much more than meets the eye to verse 12 which I’ve copied and pasted above. When it says “the Great Sea is Judah’s westernmost boundary”, this is more […]

“The territory chosen by lot for the tribe of the descendants of Y’hudah according to their families extended to the border of Edom in the Tzin Desert, toward the Negev in the far south.”-Joshua 15:1 Okay, so let’s start jumping into the detail of Joshua Chapter 15. In a nutshell, Joshua 15 is all about […]

Another major theme the compiler of the Book of Joshua wanted to communicate to us is… …that the Tribe of Judah was the first in line to receive their Promised Land inheritance. However, what’s interesting is that it wasn’t actually Judah but the clan of Caleb who received their inheritance (Caleb was one of the […]