The Book of Joshua – Part 15, Chapters 14–15

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed (Rom 13:11).

[Study Aired June 10, 2023]

Chapters 13 and 14 concluded with documentation of scores of kings and their cities, mostly utterly devastated and burnt. The Lord saw fit to leave substantial numbers of the enemy in the Promised Land for the Elect’s sake to realize that our spiritual enemies likewise will have remnants of thorns in our flesh until the First Resurrection. 

The Lord’s people glorify in His righteous creation of the new Adam, knowing that while in these bodies of sinful flesh, our spiritual enemies, like blackberry briars, will never entirely be conquered.

In the last study, I indulged in the exhausting task of listing all the kings and their cities and the meaning of their names. I concluded that greater spiritual understanding for the individual would result in his ‘working with his own hands’ so that he could ‘eat’ (2Th 3:10). Likewise, in subsequent chapters, I’ll leave that demanding task for the individual Saint’s discoveries.

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

Jos 14:1 And these are they of the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar [el-aw-zawr’] the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, gave out for inheritance to them. 
Jos 14:2 Their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 
Jos 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan. But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 
Jos 14:4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their suburbs [common land] for their cattle and for their substance.
Jos 14:5 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided the land.

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

Jos 14:6 Then the sons of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’] the Kenizzite [ken-iz-zee’], said to him, You know the thing that Jehovah said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah] regarding you and me. 
Jos 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah] to spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Jos 14:8  But my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I fully followed Jehovah my God.
Jos 14:9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your sons’ forever because you have fully followed Jehovah my God. 
Jos 14:10 And now, behold, Jehovah has kept me alive these forty-five years as He said, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am eighty-five years old today.
Jos 14:11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.
Jos 14:12 And now give me this mountain of which Jehovah spoke on that day. For you heard in that day how the giants were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. If Jehovah will be with me, then I will be able to drive them out, as Jehovah said.
Jos 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’] for an inheritance. 
Jos 14:14 And Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’] the Kenizzite [ken-iz-zee’], to this day, because he fully followed Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Jos 14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba [keer-yath’ ar-bah’]; that one was a great man among the giants. And the land had rest from war.

The Allotment for Judah

Jos 15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin [tseen] southward, in the extreme south.
Jos 15:2 And their south border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward.
Jos 15:3 And it went out southward to the ascent of Akrabbim [mah-al-ay’ ak-rab-beem’], and passed on to Zin [tseen], and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah], and went on to Hezron [khets-rone’], and went up toward Adar [ad-dawr’], and turned toward Karkaa [kar-kah’],
Jos 15:4 and passed on to Azmon [ats-mone’], and went out by the torrent of Egypt. And the boundary line was at the Sea. This shall be your south border. 
Jos 15:5 And the east border, the Salt Sea to the end of Jordan, and their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan. 
Jos 15:6 And the border went up to Beth-hoglah [bayth chog-law’], and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah [bayth haw-ar-aw-baw]. And the border went up to the stone of Bohan [bo’han] the son of Reuben; 
Jos 15:7 And the border went up toward Debir [deb-eer’] from the valley of Achor [aw-kore’], and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, before the going up to Adummim [ad-oom-meem’], which is on the south side of the river. And the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh [ane sheh’-mesh], and its boundary was at En-rogel [ane ro-gale’].
Jos 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom [hin-nome’] to the south side of the Jebusite. It is Jerusalem. And the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom [hin-nome’]  westward, at the end of the Valley of the Giants northward.
Jos 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah [nef-to’-akh], and went out to the cities of mount Ephron [ef-rone’]. And the border was drawn to Baalah [bah-al-aw’]; it is Kirjath-jearim [keer-yath’ yeh-aw-reem’]. 
Jos 15:10 And the border went around from Baalah [bah-al-aw’]westward to Mount Seir [say-eer’], and passed along to the side of mount Jearim [yeh-aw-reem’]; it is Chesalon [kes-aw-lone’], on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh [bayth sheh’-mesh], and passed on to Timnah [tim-naw’].
Jos 15:11 And the border went to the side of Ekron northward, and the border was drawn to Shikkeron [shik-ker-one’] and passed along to Mount Baalah [bah-al-aw’], and went out to Jabneel [yab-neh-ale’]. And the boundary line was at the Sea.
Jos 15:12 And the west border was to the Great Sea, and the coast. This is the border of the sons of Judah all around according to their families.
Jos 15:13 And he gave a part among the sons of Judah to Caleb the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’], according to the command of Jehovah to Joshua, even the city of Arba [ar-bah’. 1. the father of Anak and the greatest of the giants (Anakim)] the father of Anak [aw-nawk’]; it is Hebron. 
Jos 15:14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak [aw-nawk’], Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak [aw-nawk’].
Jos 15:15 And he went up from there to those who lived in Debir [deb-eer’]. And the name of Debir [deb-eer’] before was Kirjath-sepher [keer-yath’ san-naw’].
Jos 15:16 And Caleb said, He who smites Kirjath-sepher [keer-yath’ san-naw’], and takes it, I will give my daughter Achsah [ak-saw’] to him for a wife.
Jos 15:17 And Othniel [oth-nee-ale’] the son of Kenaz [ken-az’], the brother of Caleb, took it. And he gave him Achsah [ak-saw’] his daughter for a wife.
Jos 15:18 And it happened as she came, she moved him to ask a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire?
Jos 15:19 She answered, Give me a blessing, for you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 
Jos 15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families. 
Jos 15:21 And the furthest cities of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 
Jos 15:22 and Kinah [kee-naw’], and Dimonah [dee-mo-naw’], and Adadah [ad-aw-daw’], 
Jos 15:23 and Kedesh [keh’-desh], and Hazor [khaw-tsore’], and Ithnan [yith-nawn’], 
Jos 15:24 Ziph [zeef], and Telem [teh’-lem], and Bealoth [beh-aw-loth’], 
Jos 15:25 and Hazor [khaw-tsore’], Hadattah, and Kerioth-Hezron [khets-rone’], which is Hazor [khaw-tsore’], 
Jos 15:26 Amam [am-awm’], and Shema [shem-aw’], and Moladah [mo-law-daw’],
Jos 15:27 and Hazar-gaddah [khats-ar’gad-daw’], and Heshmon [klesh-mone’], and Beth-palet [bayth peh’-let],
Jos 15:28 and Hazar-shual [khats-ar’ shoo-awl’], and Beer-sheba [be-ayr’ sheh’-bah], and Bizjothjah [biz-yo-the-yaw’],
Jos 15:29 Baalah [bah-al-aw’], and Iim [ee-yeem’], and Azem, [eh’-tsem]
Jos 15:30 and Eltolad [el-to-lad’], and Chesil [kes-eel’], and Hormah [khor-maw’],
Jos 15:31 and Ziklag [tsik-lag’], and Madmannah [mad-man-naw’], and Sansannah [san-san-naw’],
Jos 15:32 and Lebaoth [leb-aw-oth’], and Shilhim [shil-kheem’], and Ain [ah’-yin], and Rimmon [rim-mone’]. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. 
Jos 15:33 In the low country were Eshtaol [esh-taw-ole’], and Zoreah [tsor-aw’], and Ashnah [ash-naw’],
Jos 15:34 and Zanoah [zaw-no’-akh], and En-gannim [ane gan-neem’], Tappuah [tap-poo’-akh], and Enam [ay-nah’-yim],
Jos 15:35 Jarmuth [yar-mooth’], and Adullam [ad-ool-lawm’], Socoh [so-ko’], and Azekah [az-ay-kaw’],
Jos 15:36 and Sharaim [shah-ar-ah’-yim], and Adithaim [ad-ool-lawm’], and Gederah [ghed-ay-ro-thah’-yim], and Gederothaim [ghed-ay-ro-thah’-yim]; fourteen cities with their villages;
Jos 15:37 Zenan [tsen-awn’], and Hadashah [khad-aw-shaw’], and Migdal-gad [migdal-gawd’],
Jos 15:38 and Dilean [dil-awn’], and Mizpeh [mits-peh’], and Joktheel [yok-theh-ale’],
Jos 15:39 Lachish [law-keesh’], and Bozkath [bots-cath’], and Eglon [eg-lawn’],
Jos 15:40 and Cabbon [kab-bone’], and Lahmam [lakh-maws’], and Kithlish [kith-leesh’],
Jos 15:41 and Gederoth [ghed-ay-rohth’], Beth-dagon [bayth-daw-gohn’], and Naamah [nah-am-aw’], and Makkedah [mak-kay-daw’]; sixteen cities with their villages; 
Jos 15:42 Libnah [lib-naw’], and Ether [eh’ther], and Ashan [aw-shawn’],
Jos 15:43 and Jiphtah [yif-tawkh’], and Ashnah [ash-naw’], and Nezib [nets-eeb’],
Jos 15:44 and Keilah [keh-ee-law’], and Achzib [ak-zeeb’], and Mareshah [mar-ay-shaw’]; nine cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:45 Ekron [ek-rone’] with its town and its villages; 
Jos 15:46 from Ekron [ek-rone’]  even to the Sea, all that were at hand by Ashdod, [ash-dode’] and their villages; 
Jos 15:47 Ashdod [ash-dode’] with its towns and its villages; Gaza [ az-zaw’] with its towns and its villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea, and its coast. 
Jos 15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir [shaw-meer’], and Jattir [yat-teer’], and Socoh[so-ko’],
Jos 15:49 and Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah (which is Debir [deb-eer’]);
Jos 15:50 and Anab [an-awb’], and Eshtemoh [esh-tem-o’-ah], and Anim [aw-neem’],
Jos 15:51 and Goshen [go’-shen], and Holon [kho-lone’], and Giloh [ghee-lo’]; eleven cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:52 Arab [ar-awb’], and Dumah [doo-maw’], and Eshean, [esh-awn’]
Jos 15:53 and Janum [yaw-neem’], and Beth-tappuah [tap-poo’-akh], and Aphekah [af-ay-kaw’],
Jos 15:54 and Humtah [khoom-taw’], and Kirjath-arba [keer-yath’ ar-bah’]; it is Hebron; and Zior [tsee-ore’]; nine cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:55 Maon [maw-ohn’], Carmel, and Ziph [zeef], and Juttah [yoo-taw’],
Jos 15:56 and Jezreel [yiz-reh-ale’], and Jokdeam [yok-deh-awm’], and Zanoah [zaw-no’-akh],
Jos 15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah [tim-naw’]; ten cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:58 Halhul [khal-khool’], Beth-zur [bayth tsoor’], and Gedor [ghed-ore’],
Jos 15:59 and Maarath [mah-ar-awth’], and Beth-anoth [bayth an-oth’], and Eltekon [el-te-kone’]; six cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:60 Kirjath-baal [keer-yath’ bah’-al]; it is Kirjath-jearim [keer-yath’ yeh-aw-reem’]; and Rabbah [rab-baw’]; two cities and their villages.
Jos 15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah [bayth haw-ar-aw-baw], Middin [mid-deen’], and Secacah [sek-aw-kaw’],
Jos 15:62 and Nibshan [nib-shawn’], and the city of Salt, and En-gedi [ane geh’-dee]; six cities and their villages. 
Jos 15:63 As for the Jebusites [yeb-oo-see’], the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites [ yeb-oo-see’] live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. 

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

Jos 14:1 And these are they of the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar [el-aw-zawr’] the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, gave out for inheritance to them. 
Jos 14:2 Their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. 

The casting of “lots” spiritually is regularly done by the Lord’s people every time they pray, asking for His will to be done; it is by total submission to our Lord’s will that He becomes our inheritance and we, His. He does all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). 

1Jn 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 
1Jn 5:15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. 

We know the Lord’s will and show a gross lack of faith and spiritual ignorance if we consider casting lots to decide a matter. With that in mind, Israel was yet learning to trust the Lord and know his will. Faith and the Lord’s spirit hadn’t come to these children, and their wide-eyed learning and frequent failures are for our benefit. 

Jos 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan. But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 
Jos 14:4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their suburbs [common land] for their cattle and for their substance.

Manasseh is one tribe split in two, each half taking possession of their inheritance, one on the East of Jordan in the North and the other adjacent West of the Jordan River.

Please see the map: https://christiananswers.net/dictionary/images/Map_of_12_tribes_of_Israel-large.png

The map of the Promised Land is a pictorial of us in our transition to becoming Christs. The beautiful snow capped Mt. Hermon in the far north, separate from Israel’s inheritance, depicts our Lord’s white hair and headship above us, the land. Jerusalem is our heart in the center of our land that becomes a harlot and is recreated spiritually as the heavenly Jerusalem. From Mt. Hermon runs the word of God, healing and feeding the land in the form of the Jordan River. As the Jordan runs south, it drains into the already dead salt sea made dead from Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities of the once rich plain burnt with sulphur, its residue creating salt. The Dead Sea flowed out at its southern end at Zoar, mostly only in spring floods and dissipated into its self-made desert marshes. Today, the Dead Sea is shrinking alarmingly by a meter a year. The imagery depicts our sinful body purified by salt yet never being eliminated, preserving old Israel as a memorial and today for our lessening depravity (All of Ezekiel 47). 

Eze 47:11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

Much later, the Northern tribes, including Ephraim and Manasseh, were taken captive by the Assyrians and following, Judah was captured by Babylon.

Jos 14:5 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided the land.

Caleb’s Request and Inheritance

Jos 14:6 Then the sons of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’] the Kenizzite [ken-iz-zee’], said to him, You know the thing that Jehovah said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah] regarding you and me. 
Jos 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah] to spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 
Jos 14:8 But my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I fully followed Jehovah my God.

We remember that many spies accompanying Joshua and Caleb, doing reconnaissance in the Promised Land, returned with fearful reports of unchallengeable giants.

Num 13:28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 
Num 13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. 
Num 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 
Num 13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 
Num 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Num 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 

Those fearful spies are typical of the Lord’s people, understandably spiritually inexperienced in their journey to becoming Christs. It is only after many trials of our faith that we become spiritual Calebs confident that the Lord will go before us regardless of how dire our circumstances.

Jos 14:9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your sons’ forever because you have fully followed Jehovah my God. 
Jos 14:10 And now, behold, Jehovah has kept me alive these forty-five years as He said, even since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am eighty-five years old today. 
Jos 14:11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in. 

Caleb, whose name means “dog”, is, as are most dogs, truly faithful to that term; he stood loyal to the Lord for all his turbulent yet richly fruitful forty years of leadership with Joshua. So, too, are we required to trust with our entire hearts in the Lord.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 
Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 
Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Jos 14:12 And now give me this mountain of which Jehovah spoke on that day. For you heard in that day how the giants were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. If Jehovah will be with me, then I will be able to drive them out, as Jehovah said.

We are learning that our giants are bread for us, and their cities are dung hills to fertilize our increasing delight in our Lord, our mountain, the Shulamite-like kisses of His word. Some folk may think I overplay the Shulamite’s pearl of revelation that her Lord’s kisses are better than wine (Son 1:2). If we fall into that category, we are no different from old Israel’s dismissiveness of her Lord’s desire for her. Since we claim to be the spiritual Shulamite, let’s be like Caleb and passionately and respectfully claim our gift, Christ, our mountain.

Joh 4:21 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither worship the Father in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. 
Joh 4:22 You worship what you do not know, we know what we worship, for salvation is of [symbolised by] the Jews [through Christ, a transitory Jew]. 
Joh 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.
Joh 4:24 God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. 

Rev 3:9 Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Jos 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron [meaning, ‘association, company, band] to Caleb the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’ – meaning, He will be facing] for an inheritance. 

In keeping with the Shulamite’s embrace with her Lord, she ‘will be facing’ him enthusiastically, eye-to-eye; she is a company of two armies representing Israel’s current army status in transition to the Bride of Christ today. The Body of Christ is the reality of that reflection because we are given to ‘fully follow Christ’ and be a great destructive force among our giants by His strength.

Jos 14:14 And Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’] the Kenizzite [ken-iz-zee’], to this day, because he fully followed Jehovah, the God of Israel. 
Jos 14:15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba [keer-yath’ ar-bah’. H7004 – 1. the father of Anak and the greatest of the giants (Anakim)]; that one was a great man among the giants. And the land had rest from war. 

When we stop hiding from our Lord and communicate with Him face to face as Jacob did, our limping walk humbles us as we learn to trust God for all our needs, particularly our spiritual development and trials in the heat of the day.

Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Face of God [Peniel]; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
Gen 32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he limped upon his thigh. 
Gen 32:32 Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat of the sinew of the thigh, which is on the hip-socket, until this day, because He touched Jacob’s hip-socket, the sinew of the thigh. 

Much later, the stripling youth, David, met Goliath face to face, representing Christ’s inward valour not to be confused with our outward puniness. 

As with Study 14 of Joshua, many of the following verses document the boundaries of each tribe’s inheritance and studying in detail the meaning of each name could be revealing yet incredibly intensive; as such, I’ve chosen to leave much of the research up to the individual.

The Allotment for Judah

Jos 15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin [tseen] southward, in the extreme south. 
Jos 15:2 And their south border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward. 
Jos 15:3 And it went out southward to the ascent of Akrabbim [mah-al-ay’ ak-rab-beem’], and passed on to Zin [tseen], and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea [kaw-dashe’ bar-nay’-ah], and went on to Hezron [khets-rone’], and went up toward Adar [ad-dawr’], and turned toward Karkaa [kar-kah’], 
Jos 15:4 and passed on to Azmon [ats-mone’], and went out by the torrent of Egypt. And the boundary line was at the Sea. This shall be your south border. 
Jos 15:5 And the east border, the Salt Sea to the end of Jordan, and their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan. 
Jos 15:6 And the border went up to Beth-hoglah [bayth chog-law’], and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah [bayth haw-ar-aw-baw]. And the border went up to the stone of Bohan [bo’han] the son of Reuben; 
Jos 15:7 And the border went up toward Debir [deb-eer’] from the valley of Achor [aw-kore’], and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, before the going up to Adummim [ad-oom-meem’], which is on the south side of the river. And the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh [ane sheh’-mesh], and its boundary was at En-rogel [ane ro-gale’].
Jos 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom [hin-nome’] to the south side of the Jebusite. It is Jerusalem. And the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom [hin-nome’]  westward, at the end of the Valley of the Giants northward. 
Jos 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah [nef-to’-akh], and went out to the cities of mount Ephron [ef-rone’]. And the border was drawn to Baalah [bah-al-aw’]; it is Kirjath-jearim [keer-yath’ yeh-aw-reem’]. 
Jos 15:10 And the border went around from Baalah [bah-al-aw’]westward to Mount Seir [say-eer’], and passed along to the side of mount Jearim [yeh-aw-reem’]; it is Chesalon [kes-aw-lone’], on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh [bayth sheh’-mesh], and passed on to Timnah [tim-naw’].
Jos 15:11 And the border went to the side of Ekron northward, and the border was drawn to Shikkeron [shik-ker-one’] and passed along to Mount Baalah [bah-al-aw’], and went out to Jabneel [yab-neh-ale’]. And the boundary line was at the Sea. 
Jos 15:12 And the west border was to the Great Sea, and the coast. This is the border of the sons of Judah all around according to their families. 
Jos 15:13 And he gave a part among the sons of Judah to Caleb the son of Jephunneh [yef-oon-neh’], according to the command of Jehovah to Joshua, even the city of Arba [ar-bah’. 1. the father of Anak and the greatest of the giants (Anakim)] the father of Anak [aw-nawk’]; it is Hebron. 
Jos 15:14 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak [aw-nawk’], Sheshai [shay-shah’-ee], and Ahiman [akh-ee-man’], and Talmai [tal-mah’-ee], the sons of Anak [aw-nawk’]. 
Jos 15:15 And he went up from there to those who lived in Debir [deb-eer’]. And the name of Debir [deb-eer’] before was Kirjath-sepher [keer-yath’ san-naw’]. 
Jos 15:16 And Caleb said, He who smites Kirjath-sepher [keer-yath’ san-naw’], and takes it, I will give my daughter Achsah [ak-saw’. Achsah = ankle chain or anklet H5913 – 1. (Piel) to shake bangles, rattle, tinkle ] to him for a wife. 
Jos 15:17 And Othniel [oth-nee-ale’. Othniel = lion of God] the son of Kenaz [ken-az’. Kenaz = hunter], the brother of Caleb, took it. And he gave him Achsah [ak-saw’] his daughter for a wife. 

Caleb’s daughter must have been of some notable beauty for his broad belief that she would be the desire of most men. She being their prize, galvanized their lion-like valour to be outstanding in battle. 

It is particularly common for young women to highlight their most attractive attributes to gain male attention. We don’t know Achsah’s ( ak-saw’) righteousness, yet we can only guess that she was noble since she was Caleb’s daughter. Nonetheless, since Caleb is a type of Christ, his daughter would equate with the church which Israel and we were, and who went astray. Achsah (ak-saw’) classically represents the prophecy of Israel’s confinement to harlotry. 

Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 

Isa 3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 
Isa 3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 
Isa 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 
Isa 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isa 3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 
Isa 3:21 The rings, and nose jewels, 
Isa 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 
Isa 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 
Isa 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Isa 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 
Isa 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. 

Following is Achsah’s (ak-saw’) lavish request that soundly establishes her as broader Israel, represented by the priestly tribe of Judah and subsequent treachery. She didn’t modestly ask for her needs; she knew her request would establish her future forever. She has springs of allegorical living water gushing upon fertile and productive land. Her dual meaning is Babylon the Great, and her nominal 46,000 Christian denominations ruling the laity to this day in spiritual and financial slavery.

Jer 2:11 Has a nation changed their gods who are yet no gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit. 
Jer 2:12 Be amazed, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; be completely desolated, says Jehovah. 
Jer 2:13 For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jer 2:14 Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey? [a prey to herself and to treacherous Judah ruling the laity] 
Jer 2:15 The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.

The “young lions”, the children of Israel with the tinkling anklets of a harlot, certainly gave their voice in the streets of that great city and are today being burned spiritually and metaphorically, physically and soon, maybe literally.

The irony is that Achsah (ak-saw’) also represents the Lord’s bride and she intimately knows him as her pearl of great price and gladly asks for her inheritance’s incredible richness, rightfully hers from before the foundations of the Earth.

Jos 15:18 And it happened as she came, she moved him to ask a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire? 
Jos 15:19 She answered, Give me a blessing, for you have given me a south land [Judah next to Edom]. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 

A stream fed by an upper and lower spring is a guaranteed water supply. Achsah’s alighting from her ass symbolizes us dismounting from the power of our self-righteousness and resting in the Lord’s never-ending spring-fed stream of His truth. The imagery closely resembles the Lord’s river flowing out of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them shall go toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter it shall be. 
Zec 14:9 And Jehovah shall be King over all the Earth; in that day there shall be one Jehovah, and His name shall be one. 
Zec 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And it shall rise and dwell in its place, from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate; to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the King’s winepresses.

Rev 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 
Rev 22:2 In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:3 And every curse will no longer be; but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will serve Him. 
Rev 22:4 And they will see His face, and His name will be in their foreheads. 
Rev 22:5 And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

The lands Achsah (ak-saw’) requested are for Judah, immediately south of Jerusalem.

Jos 15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families. 
Jos 15:21 And the furthest cities of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 
Jos 15:22 and Kinah [kee-naw’], and Dimonah [dee-mo-naw’], and Adadah [ad-aw-daw’], 
Jos 15:23 and Kedesh [keh’-desh], and Hazor [khaw-tsore’], and Ithnan [yith-nawn’], 
Jos 15:24 Ziph [zeef], and Telem [teh’-lem], and Bealoth [beh-aw-loth’], 
Jos 15:25 and Hazor [khaw-tsore’], Hadattah, and Kerioth-Hezron [khets-rone’], which is Hazor [khaw-tsore’],
Jos 15:26 Amam [am-awm’], and Shema [shem-aw’], and Moladah [mo-law-daw’],
Jos 15:27 and Hazar-gaddah [khats-ar’gad-daw’], and Heshmon [klesh-mone’], and Beth-palet [bayth peh’-let], 
Jos 15:28 and Hazar-shual [khats-ar’ shoo-awl’], and Beer-sheba [be-ayr’ sheh’-bah], and Bizjothjah [biz-yo-the-yaw’], 
Jos 15:29 Baalah [bah-al-aw’], and Iim [ee-yeem’], and Azem, [eh’-tsem] 
Jos 15:30 and Eltolad [el-to-lad’], and Chesil [kes-eel’], and Hormah [khor-maw’], 
Jos 15:31 and Ziklag [tsik-lag’], and Madmannah [mad-man-naw’], and Sansannah [san-san-naw’], 
Jos 15:32 and Lebaoth [leb-aw-oth’], and Shilhim [shil-kheem’], and Ain [ah’-yin], and Rimmon [rim-mone’]. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. 
Jos 15:33 In the low country were Eshtaol [esh-taw-ole’], and Zoreah [tsor-aw’], and Ashnah [ash-naw’], 
Jos 15:34 and Zanoah [zaw-no’-akh], and En-gannim [ane gan-neem’], Tappuah [tap-poo’-akh], and Enam [ay-nah’-yim], 
Jos 15:35 Jarmuth [yar-mooth’], and Adullam [ad-ool-lawm’], Socoh [so-ko’], and Azekah [az-ay-kaw’], 
Jos 15:36 and Sharaim [shah-ar-ah’-yim], and Adithaim [ad-ool-lawm’], and Gederah [ghed-ay-ro-thah’-yim], and Gederothaim [ghed-ay-ro-thah’-yim]; fourteen cities with their villages;
Jos 15:37 Zenan [tsen-awn’], and Hadashah [khad-aw-shaw’], and Migdal-gad [migdal-gawd’], 
Jos 15:38 and Dilean [dil-awn’], and Mizpeh [mits-peh’], and Joktheel [yok-theh-ale’], 
Jos 15:39 Lachish [law-keesh’], and Bozkath [bots-cath’], and Eglon [eg-lawn’], 
Jos 15:40 and Cabbon [kab-bone’], and Lahmam [lakh-maws’], and Kithlish [kith-leesh’], 
Jos 15:41 and Gederoth [ghed-ay-rohth’], Beth-dagon [bayth-daw-gohn’], and Naamah [nah-am-aw’], and Makkedah [mak-kay-daw’]; sixteen cities with their villages; 
Jos 15:42 Libnah [lib-naw’], and Ether [eh’ther], and Ashan [aw-shawn’], 
Jos 15:43 and Jiphtah [yif-tawkh’], and Ashnah [ash-naw’], and Nezib [nets-eeb’], 
Jos 15:44 and Keilah [keh-ee-law’], and Achzib [ak-zeeb’], and Mareshah [mar-ay-shaw’]; nine cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:45 Ekron [ek-rone’] with its town and its villages; 
Jos 15:46 from Ekron [ek-rone’]  even to the Sea, all that were at hand by Ashdod, [ash-dode’] and their villages; 
Jos 15:47 Ashdod [ash-dode’] with its towns and its villages; Gaza [ az-zaw’] with its towns and its villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea, and its coast. 
Jos 15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir [shaw-meer’], and Jattir [yat-teer’], and Socoh[so-ko’] , 
Jos 15:49 and Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah (which is Debir [deb-eer’]); 
Jos 15:50 and Anab [an-awb’], and Eshtemoh [esh-tem-o’-ah], and Anim [aw-neem’], 
Jos 15:51 and Goshen [go’-shen], and Holon [kho-lone’], and Giloh [ghee-lo’]; eleven cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:52 Arab [ar-awb’], and Dumah [doo-maw’], and Eshean, [esh-awn’] 
Jos 15:53 and Janum [yaw-neem’], and Beth-tappuah [tap-poo’-akh], and Aphekah [af-ay-kaw’], 
Jos 15:54 and Humtah [khoom-taw’], and Kirjath-arba [keer-yath’ ar-bah’]; it is Hebron; and Zior [tsee-ore’]; nine cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:55 Maon [maw-ohn’], Carmel, and Ziph [zeef], and Juttah [yoo-taw’], 
Jos 15:56 and Jezreel [yiz-reh-ale’], and Jokdeam [yok-deh-awm’], and Zanoah [zaw-no’-akh], 
Jos 15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah [tim-naw’]; ten cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:58 Halhul [khal-khool’], Beth-zur [bayth tsoor’], and Gedor [ghed-ore’], 
Jos 15:59 and Maarath [mah-ar-awth’], and Beth-anoth [bayth an-oth’], and Eltekon [el-te-kone’]; six cities and their villages; 
Jos 15:60 Kirjath-baal [keer-yath’ bah’-al]; it is Kirjath-jearim [keer-yath’ yeh-aw-reem’]; and Rabbah [rab-baw’]; two cities and their villages. 
Jos 15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah [bayth haw-ar-aw-baw], Middin [mid-deen’], and Secacah [sek-aw-kaw’], 
Jos 15:62 and Nibshan [nib-shawn’], and the city of Salt, and En-gedi [ane geh’-dee]; six cities and their villages. 
Jos 15:63 As for the Jebusites [yeb-oo-see’], the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites [ yeb-oo-see’] live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Jebusites – yeb-oo-see’ H2983 meaning descendants of Jebus 1. descendants of the 3rd son of Canaan who lived in or around the site of Jebus, the early name for Jerusalem. Origin – H2982 Definition: Jebus = threshing place. H947 –  1. to tread down, reject, trample down  a. (Qal) 1. to tread down, trample (of warriors) 2. of rejection (fig.) b. (Polel) 1. to tread down (in bad sense) 2. to desecrate.

It seems that Judah, being some of the very last to receive a land of residency, had grown weary of years of fighting and routing the land of their enemy. The Jebusites were mere men, as were all of Israel’s enemies. Since the Lord’s power to drive out Israel’s enemies was guaranteed trustworthy, why couldn’t these Jebusites not be cleansed from polluting Judah’s land?

Since the Jebusite’s name means “threshing place”, the Lord left these people in the very spiritual heart of Israel as a thorn in their flesh and a reminder for us to constantly seek the Lord’s direction on every issue.

Nebuchadnezzar desecrated and trampled Jerusalem outwardly, and Judah was carried to Babylon. The Lord’s people were commissioned to go into Babylon for us today to spiritually “come out of her”.

Mat 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus apart, and said, Why could we not cast him out? 
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you. 
Mat 17:21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. 

Jer 51:44 And I will punish Bel [Bel = lord 1. a chief Babylonian deity 1. supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites 2. a Reubenite 3. the son of Jehiel and grandfather of Saul] in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 
Jer 51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. 

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 

Rev 19:1 And after these things I heard a great sound of a numerous crowd in Heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and the power to the Lord our God!