Bible Topics for Kids
DEBIR, 2. A town in the mountains of Judah
Joshua 15:15-49
15. He went up against the inhabitants of DEBIR: now the name of DEBIR before was Kiriath Sepher.
16. Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife."
17. Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
18. When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What do you want?"
19. She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water."So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
20. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
21. The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
22. Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
23. Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
24. Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
25. Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (also called Hazor),
26. Amam, Shema, Moladah,
27. Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
28. Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
29. Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
30. Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
31. Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
32. Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
33. In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
34. Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
35. Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
36. Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
37. Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
38. Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
39. Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
40. Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
41. Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
42. Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
43. Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
44. Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
45. Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
46. from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
47. Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
48. In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
49. Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which is DEBIR),
Judges 1:12-13
12. Caleb said, "I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it."
13. Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.