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Chapter 1 |
| 1 | Now after the
death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD,
saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against
them? |
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And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered
the land into his hand. |
| 3 | And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come
up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I
likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. |
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And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites
into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. |
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And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew
the Canaanites and the Perizzites. |
| 6 | But Adonibezek fled; and they
pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great
toes. |
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And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their
thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I
have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and
there he died. |
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8 | Now the children of Judah had fought against
Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set
the city on fire. |
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9 | And afterward the children of Judah went down to
fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and
in the valley. |
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10 | And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in
Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai. |
| 11 | And from thence he went against the
inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
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| 12 | And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him
will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. |
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13 | And Othniel the son of
Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to
wife. |
| 14 |
And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him
to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said
unto her, What wilt thou? |
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15 | 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. |
| 16 | And
the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of
palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth
in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. |
| 17 | And
Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited
Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called
Hormah. |
| 18
| Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon
with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. |
| 19 | And the
LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but
could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of
iron. |
| 20 |
And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he
expelled thence the three sons of Anak. |
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21 | And the children of
Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the
Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
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| 22 | And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD
was with them. |
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23 | And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now
the name of the city before was Luz.) |
| 24 | And the spies saw a man come
forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the
entrance into the city, and we will show thee mercy. |
| 25 | And when he
showed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of
the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. |
| 26 | And the man
went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name
thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day. |
| 27 | Neither did
Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and
her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of
Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land. |
| 28 | And it came to pass, when
Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly
drive them out. |
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29 | Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that
dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. |
| 30 |
Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of
Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
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| 31 | Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the
inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik,
nor of Rehob: |
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32 | But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out. |
| 33 | Neither
did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of
Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land:
nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries
unto them. |
| 34
| And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the
mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: |
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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
tributaries. |
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36 | And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up
to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. |
