| 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? |
| 2 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 12 | And
Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give
Achsah my daughter to wife. |
| 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? |
|
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. |
| 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. |
| 22 | And
the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with
them. |
| 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. |
|
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: |
| 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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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 tributaries. |
| 36
| And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from
the rock, and upward. |
