Joshua 15:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

As she came Or, as she went; namely, from her father's house to her husband's, as the manner was. She moved him She persuaded her husband, either, 1st, That he would ask: or rather, 2d, That he would suffer her to ask, as she did. She lighted That she might address herself to her father in an humble posture, and as a supplicant, which he understood by her gesture.

Joshua 15:18

18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?