Judges Chapter 1 Back Next{1:1} It happened after the
death of
Joshua, the children of
Israel asked of
Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the
Canaanites, to fight against them?"
{1:2} Yahweh said, "
Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand."
{1:3} Judah said to Simeon his
brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him.
{1:4} Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in
Bezek ten thousand men.
{1:5} They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
{1:6} But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
{1:7} Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, scavenged under my table: as I have done, so
God has requited me." They brought him to
Jerusalem, and he died there.
{1:8} The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on
fire.
{1:9} Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the
hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
{1:10} Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of
Hebron before was
Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai.
{1:11} From there he went against the inhabitants of
Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was
Kiriath Sepher.)
{1:12}
Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give
Achsah my daughter as wife."
{1:13} Othniel the son of
Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
{1:14} It happened, when she came, that she got him to ask her
father for a
field: and she alighted from off her
donkey; and Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
{1:15} She said to him, "Give me a
blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
{1:16} The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of
Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
{1:17} Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called
Hormah.
{1:18} Also Judah took
Gaza with its border, and
Ashkelon with its border, and
Ekron with its border.
{1:19} Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had
chariots of
iron.
{1:20} They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of
Anak.
{1:21} The children of
Benjamin did not drive out the
Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
{1:22} The
house of
Joseph, they also went up against
Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.
{1:23} The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was
Luz.)
{1:24} The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
{1:25} He showed them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
{1:26} The man went into the land of the
Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
{1:27}
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of
Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
{1:28} It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
{1:29}
Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in
Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
{1:30} Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of
Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
{1:31}
Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of
Ahlab, nor of
Achzib, nor of
Helbah, nor of
Aphik, nor of Rehob;
{1:32} but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
{1:33} Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of
Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of
Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
{1:34} The
Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
{1:35} but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in
Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
{1:36} The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of
Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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