Caleb seems to have agreed to this; but Achsah knew he was rich as well as loving; so she alighted off her ass, and ran to his side, "Give me a blessing!" she said. "You have given me a south land—give me also springs of water!"
And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
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Jesus says to us to-day, "How much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him."
[XLIX. The First King]
So the child Samuel grew up and became a prophet of the Lord, and he judged the people and helped them in all their difficulties, by encouraging them to seek God and trust in Him.
But the Children of Israel often turned back from the Lord and followed their own ways, even making idols for themselves like the Canaanites had.
This grieved Samuel very much, because he knew that it would make God very angry with them.
At length Samuel was getting to be an old man, and the people got tired of being judged by his sons, who were not very good and faithful young men, and they asked Samuel to make a king to rule them, and go to war with them as they saw other nations do.
This was the greatest grief of all to Samuel, because the Lord was their King! But nothing that he could say would turn them from their wish to have a king whom they could see, and who would lead them to battle against their enemies.