Judges Chapter 1

Judges Chapter 1
1 After that Joshua was dead, the
children of Israel asked the Lord, saying,
Who shall go up for us against the
Canaanites, to fight first against them?
2 And the Lord said, Judah shall go up:
behold, I have given the land into his
hand.
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.
4 Then Judah went up, and the Lord
delivered the Canaanites and the
Perizzites into their hands, and they slew
of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 5
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek:
and they fought against him, and slew the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
6 But Adoni-bezek fled, and they
pursued after him, and caught him, and
cut off the thumbs of his hands and of his
feet.
7 And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings
having the thumbs of their hands and of
their feet cut off, gathered bread under
my table: as I have done, so God hath
rewarded me. So they brought him to
Jerusalem, and there he died. 8 (Now the
children of Judah had fought against
Jerusalem, and had taken it and smitten it
with the edge of the sword, and had set
the city on fire.) 9 Afterward also the
children of Judah went down to fight
against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the
mountain, and toward the south, and in
the low country.
10 And Judah went against the
Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron, which
Hebron beforetime was called Kirjatharba:
and they slew Sheshai, and
Ahiman and Talmai.
11 And from thence he went to the
inhabitants of Debir, and the name of
Debir in old time was Kirjath-sepher.
12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth
Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, even to him
will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz,
Caleb's younger brother took it, to whom
he gave Achsah his daughter to wife.
14 And when she came to him, she
moved him to ask of her father a field,
and she lighted off her ass, and Caleb
said unto her, What wilt thou?
15 And she answered him, Give me a
blessing: for thou hast given me a south
country, give me also springs of water:
and Caleb gave her the springs above
and the springs beneath.
16 And the children of Keni, Moses'
father in law went up out of the city of
the palm trees with the children of
Judah, into the wilderness of Judah, that
lieth in the south of Arad, and went and
dwelt among the people.
17 But Judah went with Simeon his
brother, and they slew the Canaanites
that inhabited Zephath, and utterly
destroyed it, and called the name of the
city Hormah.
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coasts
thereof, and Askelon with the coasts
thereof, and Ekron with the coasts
thereof.
19 And the Lord was with Judah, and he
possessed the mountains: for he could
not drive out the inhabitants of the
valleys, because they had chariots of
iron.
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as
Moses had said, and he expelled thence
the three sons of Anak.
21 But the children of Benjamin did not
cast out the Jebusites, that inhabited
Jerusalem: therefore the Jebusites dwell
with the children of Benjamin in
Jerusalem unto this day.
22 They also that were of the house of
Joseph, went up to Beth-el, and the Lord
was with them,
23 And the house of Joseph caused to
view Beth-el (and the name of the city
beforetime was Luz)
24 And the spies saw a man come out of
the city, and they said unto him, Show
us, we pray thee, the way into the city,
and we will show thee mercy. 25 And
when he had showed them the way into
the city, they smote the city with the edge
of the sword, but they let the man and all
his household depart. 26 Then 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.
27 Neither did Manasseh destroy
Bethshean with her towns, nor Taanach
with her towns, nor the inhabitants of
Dor with her towns, nor the inhabitants
of Ibleam with her towns, neither the
inhabitants of Megiddo with her towns:
but the Canaanites dwelled still in that
land.
28 Nevertheless when Israel was strong,
they put the Canaanites to tribute, and
expelled them not wholly.
29 Likewise Ephraim expelled not the
Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer, but the
Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
30 Neither did Zebulun expel the
inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants
of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt
among them, and became tributaries. 31
Neither did Asher cast 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, 32 But the Asherites dwelt
among the Canaanites the inhabitants of
the land: for they did not drive them out.
33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the
inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the
inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt
among the Canaanites the inhabitants of
the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of
Beth-shemesh, and of Beth-anath became
tributaries unto them.
34 And the Amorites drove the children
of Dan into the mountain: so that they
suffered them not to come down to the
valley.
35 And the Ammonites dwelt still in
mount Heres in Aijalon, and in
Shaalbim, and when the hand of Joseph's
family prevailed, they became
tributaries: 36 And the coast of the
Amorites was from Maaleh-akrabbim,
even from Selah and upward.