1 It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked
of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to
fight against them? 2 Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand. 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. 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. 5 They found
Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the
Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued
after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7 Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great
toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so
God has requited me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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. 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. 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. 11 From there he
went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was
Kiriath Sepher.) 12 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. 13 Othniel the son of
Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter
as wife. 14 It happened, when she came to him, that she moved him
to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb
said to her, What would you? 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.
Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 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. 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. 18 Also
Judah took Gaza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it,
and Ekron with the border of it. 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. 20 They gave
Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons
of Anak. 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. 22 The house of Joseph, they also went up against
Bethel; and Yahweh was with them. 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out
Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) 24 The watchers saw a
man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you,
the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you. 25 He shown
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. 26 The man went
into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it
Luz, which is the name of it to this day. 27 Manasseh did not drive out
the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its towns, nor of 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. 28 It happened, when Israel had
grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not
utterly drive them out. 29 Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who
lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. 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.
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; 32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of
the land; for they did not drive them out. 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.
34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they
would not allow them to come down to the valley; 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. 36 The
border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and
upward.
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