“And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, what wilt thou? And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.” Judges 1:14-15
“If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.” John 14:14
Here is the Lord’s boundless generosity. After giving Othniel a great victory over the land of Hebron and the hand of Caleb’s daughter in marriage the newlyweds make another request: springs of water for their land. Caleb has served the Lord faithfully all the days of his life, being one of the only ones of Joshua’s generation to inherit the land of Canaan. Notice Caleb does not rebuke his daughter’s request. He does not say, “You have received all of this land why are you being greedy for more.” She asks for water, which has a special significance in the scriptures.
Revelation speaks of “a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God…”1 Isaiah says of that water, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters…”2 and Jesus says that “the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And so Caleb, picturing the Lord gives her both the upper and nether springs, as he always does for His children abundantly above all that we ask or think...3
...whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. - Revelation 22:17
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Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well - Ferdinand Bol public domain
Scriptures:
1Rev 22:1
2Is 55:1
3Eph 3:20
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