Judges:1

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* Now after the death of Joshua , it came to pass that the sons of Israel asked the LORD , saying , Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them ? * And the LORD said , Judah shall go up ; behold , I have delivered the land into his hands . * And Judah said unto Simeon , his brother , Come up with me into my lot that we may fight against the Canaanite ; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot . So Simeon went with him . * And Judah went up ; and the LORD delivered the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hands , and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men . * And they found Adonibezek in Bezek , and they fought against him , and they slew the Canaanite and the Perizzite . * But Adonibezek fled , and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes . * And Adonibezek said , Seventy kings , having their thumbs and their great toes cut off , gathered [crumbs ] under my table ; as I have done , so God has recompensed me . And they put him into Jerusalem , and there he died . * Now the sons 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 . * And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanite that dwelt in the mountains and in the Negev and in the plains . * And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before [was ] Kirjatharba ), and they slew Sheshai , Ahiman , and Talmai . * And from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir (and the name of Debir before [was ] Kirjathsepher ). * And Caleb said , He that smites Kirjathsepher and takes it , to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife . * And Othniel , the son of Kenaz , Caleb 's younger brother , took it ; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife . * And it came to pass when he took her that he persuaded her to ask her father for land to cultivate . And she lighted from off [her ] ass , and Caleb said unto her , What wilt thou ? * And she said unto him , Give me a blessing , for thou hast given me a dry land ; give me also springs of water . And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs . * And the sons of the Kenite , Moses ' father-in-law , went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah which is towards the Negev of Arad ; and they went and dwelt among the people . * And Judah went with Simeon his brother , and they slew the Canaanite that inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed it . And the name of the city was called Hormah . * Also Judah took Gaza with its border and Askelon with its border and Ekron with its border . * And the LORD was with Judah , who drove out [the inhabitants of ] the mountains , but could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains , because they had chariots of iron . * And they gave Hebron unto Caleb as Moses had said , and he expelled from there the three sons of Anak . * And the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem ; thus the Jebusites dwell with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day . * And also those of the house of Joseph went up against Bethel , and the LORD [was ] with them . * And those of the house of Joseph put spies in Bethel (Now the name of the city before [was ] Luz ). * 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 . * And when he showed them the entrance into the city , they smote the city with the edge of the sword , but they let the man go and all his family . * And the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called the name of it Luz , which [is ] its name unto this day . * Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of ] Bethshean 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 Canaanite desired to dwell in that land . * And it came to pass when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites under tribute but did not utterly drive them out . * Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer , but the Canaanite dwelt in Gezer among them . * Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron nor the inhabitants of Nahalol , but the Canaanite dwelt among them and became tributaries . * 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 ; * to the contrary Asher dwelt among the Canaanites that inhabited the land , for they did not drive them out . * Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh nor the inhabitants of Bethanath , but he dwelt among the Canaanites that inhabited the land ; nevertheless , the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them . * And the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the mountain , for they would not allow them to come down to the valley . * And the Amorites desired to dwell in Mount Heres in Aijalon and in Shaalbim ; yet when the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed , they made them tributaries . * And the border of the Amorites [was ] from the ascent to Akrabbim from the rock and upward .:

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