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Chapter 1
- 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?
- 1:2
- And the LORD said, Judah shall go
up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
- 1:3
- 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.
- 1:4
- 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.
- 1:5
- And they found Adonibezek in Bezek:
and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the
Perizzites.
- 1:6
- But Adonibezek fled; and they
pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his
great toes.
- 1:7
- 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.
- 1:8
- 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.
- 1:9
- 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.
- 1:10
- 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.
- 1:11
- And from thence he went against
the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was
Kirjathsepher:
- 1:12
- And Caleb said, He that smiteth
Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to
wife.
- 1:13
- And Othniel the son of Kenaz,
Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter
to wife.
- 1:14
- 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?
- 1:15
- 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.
- 1:16
- 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.
- 1:17
- 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.
- 1:18
- Also Judah took Gaza with the
coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the
coast thereof.
- 1:19
- 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.
- 1:20
- And they gave Hebron unto Caleb,
as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
- 1:21
- 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.
- 1:22
- And the house of Joseph, they also
went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.
- 1:23
- And the house of Joseph sent to
descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
- 1:24
- And the spies saw a man come forth
out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the
entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
- 1:25
- And when he shewed 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.
- 1:26
- 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.
- 1:27
- 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.
- 1:28
- And it came to pass, when Israel
was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not
utterly drive them out.
- 1:29
- Neither did Ephraim drive out the
Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer
among them.
- 1:30
- Neither did Zebulun drive out the
inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the
Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
- 1:31
- 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:
- 1:32
- But the Asherites dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them
out.
- 1:33
- 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.
- 1:34
- And the Amorites forced the
children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer 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 tributaries.
- 1:36
- And the coast of the Amorites was
from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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