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This was done by Othniel, Caleb's brother's son, who accordingly obtained her as his wife. [2] Achsah later requested, and was given, upper and lower springs of water (presumably in the Negev) from her father. [3] Various Septuagint manuscripts, in various passages, give her name as Ascha, Achsa, Aza, and Oxa. [4]
Achsah (or Acsah) – daughter of Caleb. When Caleb promised her to Othniel in marriage, she requested that he increased her dowry to include not only land, but springs of water as well. Joshua, Judges, I Chronicles [8] [9] [10] Adah – Adah # 1 – wife of Lamech, Genesis [11] Adah – Adah #2 – daughter of Elon, the Hittite and one of the ...
The work also includes a love story elaborated from a few hints in the Biblical narrative between Caleb's daughter Achsah and Othniel, a young soldier. [ 2 ] Joshua was the fourth oratorio Handel had written within the span of twenty months. [ 3 ]
In English and Scottish literature, the Four Daughters appear quite widely, for example in: [1] [2] Robert Grosseteste's Chasteu d'amour (thirteenth century), translated into Middle English as The King and his Four Daughters. [6] the Cursor Mundi (c. 1300) lines 9517-52; the English Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth- or fourteenth-century), number 55
Jephthah's daughter, sometimes later referred to as Seila or as Iphis, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is recounted in Judges 11. The judge Jephthah had just won a battle over the Ammonites , and vowed he would give the first thing that came out of his house as a burnt offering to God .
Richard Bauckham argues for identifying Joanna, the wife of Chuza, with the Junia mentioned in Paul's letter to the Romans 16:7, "Joanna" being her Jewish name, and "Junia" her Roman. Joanna is mentioned as one of the members of the ministry of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, travelling with him among the other twelve and some other women, city to ...
She was an only daughter, and was twelve years of age. So hearing that Jesus was near, Jairus came to Jesus, and, falling down before him, implored Jesus to come and see his sick daughter. She had been comatose, and in Matthew 9:18 [18] her father says she is already dead. Jesus went to her, even though the others mocked him and said it was too ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, Abigail (Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל, romanized: ʾAḇīḡayīl) was the mother of Amasa, the commander-in-chief of Absalom's army (2 Samuel 17:25). [1] 2 Samuel 17:25 refers to Abigail as a sister of Zeruiah and therefore an aunt to Joab. [2]