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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 ...
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
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 ]
Athaliah was the daughter of Jezebel and King Ahab. Her story is told in 2 Kings 8:16 – 11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10–23:15. According to these passages, Athaliah married Jehoram, King of Judah. After her husband died, Athaliah's son Ahaziah came to the throne of Judah, but he reigned for only a year before being killed. When he died ...
The sheyd Ashmodai (אַשְמְדּאָי) in birdlike form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 Child sacrifice to the sheyd Molekh (מֹלֶךְ), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity Moloch of the Old Testament in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)
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 .
Lot and his daughters. Although the 1975 edition edited by Dodwell and Clemoes asserted that "the artist was not copying the pictures of a remote and long-forgotten age; like other creative artists he was thinking in terms of his own life and times”, [19] this is exactly what is proposed in a monograph of 2017 by Herbert Broderick, dealing with the illustrations in the manuscript.