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The Judean hill-country city Othniel captured to win Caleb's daughter Achsah
JudeaHistorically Verified
The site is most often identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron. Moshe Kochavi's 1970s excavations uncovered Iron Age fortifications and Late Bronze remains matching the biblical timeline.
A Canaanite royal city in the southern Judean hill country (also called Kiriath-sepher, "city of the book") that Joshua captured during the southern campaign of the conquest (Joshua 10:38-39; 12:13). Othniel won Caleb's daughter Achsah by capturing Debir for him — and the famous request for "the springs of water" became one of Scripture's quietly memorable family scenes (Joshua 15:15-19; Judges 1:11-15). The town was later allotted to Judah and designated a Levitical city for the descendants of Aaron (Joshua 21:15; 1 Chronicles 6:58).
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