Joshua 15:19

Give me a blessing Comp. the words of Jacob to Esau, Genesis 33:11, "Take, I pray thee, my blessingthat is brought to thee;" Joshua 14:13, "And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb … Hebron for an inheritance;" and the words of Naaman to Elisha, "Now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessingof thy servant." 2 Kings 5:15.

a south land He had given it to her, inasmuch as he had given her as a wife to the conqueror of Debir. The words are used in a double sense. "The south country" = "the barren and dry land," "terram australem et torrentem dedisti mihi," Vulgate; "the south loond and drye," Wyclif.

springs of water The word here used, "gulloth," = "waves" or "bubblings." "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 the Judæan hills, down to its lowest depth. On the possession of these upper and lower -bubblings," so contiguous to her lover's prize, Achsah had set her heart. The scene of this incident was first discovered by Dr Rosen, and under his guidance I saw it in 1862." Stanley's Lectures, i. 264.

the upper springs, and the nether springs Caleb responded to her wish, and gave her the higher and lower fields watered by these springs. Nether adj. = lower. Comp. Exodus 19:17, "And Moses brought forth the people … and they stood at the netherpart of the mount;" Deuteronomy 24:6, "No man shall take the netheror the upper millstone to pledge;" 1 Kings 9:17, "And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether;" Job 41:24, "His heart is as firm as a stone, yea as hard as a piece of the nethermillstone." A. S. nyðera, or nyðera. Comp. "the Netherlands" = "the Lowlands;" "a foolish hanging of thy netherlip." Shakespeare, I. Henry IV. ii. 4.