Judges 1:14

when she came into her husband's house (Ruth 4:11), or from the place where she had been kept in safety during the campaign (Moore).

she moved him to ask Joshua 15:18; but since Achsah herself asks the favour Judges 1:15, it is more natural to read he moved, instigated, her to ask. The LXX and Vulgate give this sense, but their evidence as to the original reading is not very decisive; nor is it easy to see why -he instigated her" should have been altered to the present text.

she lighted down from off her ass to shew respect (Genesis 24:64; 2 Kings 5:21) and to beg a favour (1 Samuel 25:23). The meaning of the verb lighted, descended, only again in Judges 4:21 (-it pierced through" RV.) and Joshua 15, is inferred from the context. To this day in the East the traveller who begs hospitality, for instance, in a Bedouin camp is required to dismount and approach the sheikh on foot.