Debir
Penerangan
Salah satu dari sebelas kota di sebelah barat Hebron, di dataran tinggi Yehuda [Yos 15:49 ; Hak 1:11 -15]. Ia pada asalnya adalah salah satu kota orang Enak [Yos 15:15 ], dan juga dipanggil Kiryat-sefer dan Kiryat-sana (49). Kaleb, yang telah menakluk dan mengambil alih kota dan daerah Hebron [Yos 14:6 -15], menawarkan tangan putrinya kepada sesiapa yang berjaya memimpin pasukan melawan Debir. Otniel, adiknya yang lebih muda [Hak 1:13 ; Hak 3:9 ], berjaya menaklukinya dan memperoleh Aksa sebagai isterinya. Dia tidak puas dengan bahagian yang diberikan ayahnya, dan ketika dia menuju ke rumah barunya, dia "turun dari keledainya" dan berkata kepadanya, "Berikanlah aku berkat [iaitu, mas kahwin]: kerana engkau telah memberiku tanah selatan" [Yos 15:19 , A.V.]; atau, seperti dalam Versi yang Disemak, "Engkau telah menempatkanku di tanah selatan", iaitu, di Negeb, di luar lembah subur Hebron, di tanah yang kering dan tandus. "Berikanlah juga kepadaku mata air. Dan dia memberinya mata air atas, dan mata air bawah."
Debir telah dikenal pasti dengan Edh-Dhaheriyeh moden, iaitu, "sumur di puncak", di selatan Hebron.
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Debir
oracle town; sanctuary.
(1.) One of the eleven cities to the west of Hebron, in the highlands of Judah (Josh 15:49; Judg 1:11-15). It was originally one of the towns of the Anakim (Josh 15:15), and was also called Kirjath-sepher (q.v.) and Kirjath-sannah (Josh 15:49). Caleb, who had conquered and taken possession of the town and district of Hebron (Josh 14:6-15), offered the hand of his daughter to any one who would successfully lead a party against Debir. Othniel, his younger brother (Judg 1:13; 3:9), achieved the conquest, and gained Achsah as his wife. She was not satisfied with the portion her father gave her, and as she was proceeding toward her new home, she "lighted from off her ass" and said to him, "Give me a blessing [i.e., a dowry]: for thou hast given me a south land" [(Josh 15:19), A.V.]; or, as in the Revised Version, "Thou hast set me in the land of the south", i.e., in the Negeb, outside the rich valley of Hebron, in the dry and barren land. "Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs."
Debir has been identified with the modern Edh-Dhaheriyeh, i.e., "the well on the ridge", to the south of Hebron.
(2.) A place near the "valley of Achor" (Josh 15:7), on the north boundary of Judah, between Jerusalem and Jericho.
(3.) The king of Eglon, one of the five Canaanitish kings who were hanged by Joshua (Josh 10:3; 10:23) after the victory at Gibeon. These kings fled and took refuge in a cave at Makkedah. Here they were kept confined till Joshua returned from the pursuit of their discomfited armies, when he caused them to be brought forth, and "Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees" (Josh 10:26).
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary