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DIVISION
Debir District
| Name | ACHSAH |
| Aliases | DAUGHTER OF CALEB / WIFE OF OTHNIEL / WHO ASKED FOR THE SPRINGS |
| Status | DECEASED / GIVEN AS A PRIZE OF VALOR / WHO SECURED A BLESSING FOR HER HOUSE |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | THE BRIDE WON BY THE CAPTURE OF A CITY |
| Place of Birth | CANAAN (JUDAH) | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | JUDAH (HOUSE OF CALEB) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | DAUGHTER OF CALEB | People | JUDAH |
| Occupation | DAUGHTER OF THE HOUSE OF CALEB | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HOUSE OF CALEB | Calling | THE DAUGHTER WHO ASKED BOLDLY FOR A BLESSING |
| Primary Mission | RECEIVE HER INHERITANCE IN THE LAND | Known Signs | THE PRIZE FOR KIRIATH-SEPHER / THE REQUEST FOR THE SPRINGS |
| Covenant Role | A HEIR WHO SECURED WATER FOR HER LAND | Divine Access | INDIRECT / UNDER THE INHERITANCE OF ISRAEL |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Matriarchal Classification | THE BOLD DAUGHTER |
| Covenant Status | HEIR IN THE LAND | Known Miracles | NONE RECORDED |
| Divine Commission | CONFIRMED | Threat Assessment | A DRY AND WATERLESS FIELD |
| Mission Status | BLESSED / GIVEN THE UPPER AND LOWER SPRINGS | Archive Category | CONQUEST / THE INHERITANCE |
The prize Caleb offered for the city: HIS DAUGHTER ACHSAH IN MARRIAGE
What she asked of her father: GIVE ME A BLESSING, ALSO SPRINGS OF WATER
The subject was the daughter of Caleb, offered as wife to whoever would attack and capture Kiriath-sepher, also called Debir. Othniel the son of Kenaz took the city, and the subject was given to him.
As she came to her husband, she urged him to ask her father for a field, and when she came before Caleb she got down from her donkey, and he asked what she wished.
She answered, Give me a blessing; since you have set me in the dry land of the Negev, give me also springs of water.
Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs, so that her inheritance would be well watered and fruitful.
Her brief story shows a woman of faith and initiative who was not content with a dry inheritance, but asked her father for the good gift he was ready to give, and received it.
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- It is right to ask boldly for the good gifts a father is ready to give.
- Do not settle for a dry portion when a blessing is there to be sought.
- Faith turns an inheritance into fruitfulness by asking for what is needed.
