| Geneva Study Bible And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher. Wesley's Notes 15:15 Debir - The same mentioned above, ver.7. The name was Kirjath - sepher - This clause seems to be added to distinguish this from the other Debir subdued by Joshua, chap.10:38,39. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 15. Debir-"oracle." Its former name, Kirjath-sepher, signifies "city of the book," being probably a place where public registers were kept. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 15:13-19 Achsah obtained some land by Caleb's free grant. He gave her a south land. Land indeed, but a south land, dry and apt to be parched. She obtained more, on her request, and he gave the upper and the nether springs. Those who understand it but of one field, watered both with the rain of heaven, and the springs that issued out of the earth, countenance the allusion commonly made to this, when we pray for spiritual and heavenly blessings which relate to our souls, as blessings of the upper springs, and those which relate to the body and the life that now is, as blessings of the nether springs. All the blessings, both of the upper and the nether springs, belong to the children of God. As related to Christ, they have them freely given of the Father, for the lot of their inheritance. | 
