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bbe @Judges:1:1 @Now after the death of Joshua , the children of Israel made request to the Lord , saying , Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites ? bbe @Judges:1:2 @And the Lord said , Judah is to go up : see , I have given the land into his hands . bbe @Judges:1:3 @Then Judah said to Simeon his brother , Come up with me into my heritage , so that we may make war against the Canaanites ; and I will then go with you into your heritage . So Simeon went with him . bbe @Judges:1:4 @And Judah went up ; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands ; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek . bbe @Judges:1:5 @And they came across Adoni-zedek , and made war on him ; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites . bbe @Judges:1:6 @But Adoni-zedek went in flight ; and they went after him and overtook him , and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off . bbe @Judges:1:7 @And Adoni-zedek said , Seventy kings , whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off , got broken meat under my table : as I have done , so has God done to me in full . And they took him to Jerusalem , and he came to his end there . bbe @Judges:1:8 @Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem , and took it , burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy . bbe @Judges:1:9 @After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands . bbe @Judges:1:10 @And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron : (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba :) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword . bbe @Judges:1:11 @And from there he went up against the people of Debir . (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher .) bbe @Judges:1:12 @And Caleb said , I will give Achsah , my daughter , as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it . bbe @Judges:1:13 @And Othniel , the son of Kenaz , Caleb 's younger brother , took it ; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife . bbe @Judges:1:14 @Now when she came to him , he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father : and she got down from her ass ; and Caleb said to her , What is it ? bbe @Judges:1:15 @And she said to him , Give me a blessing ; because you have put me in a dry south-land , now give me springs of water . So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring . bbe @Judges:1:16 @Now Hobab the Kenite , Moses ' father-in-law , had come up out of the town of palm-trees , with the children of Judah , into the waste land of Arad ; and he went and was living among the Amalekites ; bbe @Judges:1:17 @And Judah went with Simeon , his brother , and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath , and put it under the curse ; and he gave the town the name of Hormah . bbe @Judges:1:18 @Then Judah took Gaza and its limit , and Ashkelon and its limit , and Ekron and its limit . bbe @Judges:1:19 @And the Lord was with Judah ; and he took the hill-country for his heritage ; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out , for they had war-carriages of iron . bbe @Judges:1:20 @And they gave Hebron to Caleb , as Moses had said ; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak , driving them out from there . bbe @Judges:1:21 @And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out ; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem . bbe @Judges:1:22 @And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el , and the Lord was with them . bbe @Judges:1:23 @So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el . (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz .) bbe @Judges:1:24 @And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town , and said to him , If you will make clear to us the way into the town , we will be kind to you . bbe @Judges:1:25 @So he made clear to them the way into the town , and they put it to the sword ; but they let the man and all his family get away safe . bbe @Judges:1:26 @And he went into the land of the Hittites , building a town there and naming it Luz : which is its name to this day . bbe @Judges:1:27 @And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns , or of Taanach and its daughter-towns , or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns , or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns , or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns , driving them out ; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land . bbe @Judges:1:28 @And whenever Israel became strong , they put the Canaanites to forced work , without driving them out completely . bbe @Judges:1:29 @And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out ; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them . bbe @Judges:1:30 @Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out ; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work . bbe @Judges:1:31 @And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco , or Zidon , or Ahlab , or Achzib , or Helbah , or Aphik , or Rehob , driving them out ; bbe @Judges:1:32 @But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites , the people of the land , without driving them out . bbe @Judges:1:33 @Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath , driving them out ; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land ; however , the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work . bbe @Judges:1:34 @And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites , who would not let them come down into the valley ; bbe @Judges:1:35 @For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres , in Aijalon , and in Shaalbim ; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they , and put them to forced work . bbe @Judges:1:36 @And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up .

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