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1:1  It happened after 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?"
1:2  Yahweh said, "Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand."
1:3  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.
1:4  Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
1:5  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
1:6  But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
1:7  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.
1:8  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.
1:9  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.
1:10  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.
1:11  From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)
1:12  Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
1:13  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
1:14  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 like?"
1:15  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." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
1:16  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.
1:17  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.
1:18  Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
1:19  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.
1:20  They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
1:21  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.
1:22  The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.
1:23  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
1:24  The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
1:25  He 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.
1:26  The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
1:27  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.
1:28  It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
1:29  Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
1:30  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.
1:31  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;
1:32  but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
1:33  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.
1:34  The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
1:35  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.
1:36  The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.