1Judges 1

1After 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?”Select Judges 1:1

2Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”Select Judges 1:2

3Judah 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.Select Judges 1:3

4Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.Select Judges 1:4

5They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him; and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.Select Judges 1:5

6But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.Select Judges 1:6

7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.Select Judges 1:7

8The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.Select Judges 1:8

9After that, 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.Select Judges 1:9

10Judah 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.Select Judges 1:10

11From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)Select Judges 1:11

12Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to he who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”Select Judges 1:12

13Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.Select Judges 1:13

14When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”Select Judges 1:14

15She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because 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.Select Judges 1:15

16The 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.Select Judges 1:16

17Judah 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.Select Judges 1:17

18Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.Select Judges 1:18

19Yahweh 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.Select Judges 1:19

20They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.Select Judges 1:20

21The 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.Select Judges 1:21

22The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.Select Judges 1:22

23The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)Select Judges 1:23

24The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”Select Judges 1:24

25He 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.Select Judges 1:25

26The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.Select Judges 1:26

27Manasseh 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.Select Judges 1:27

28When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.Select Judges 1:28

29Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.Select Judges 1:29

30Zebulun 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.Select Judges 1:30

31Asher 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;Select Judges 1:31

32but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.Select Judges 1:32

33Naphtali 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.Select Judges 1:33

34The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;Select Judges 1:34

35but 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.Select Judges 1:35

36The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.Select Judges 1:36