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Now after
the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the
children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who
shall go up for us against the Canaanites first,
to fight against them?
02 And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold,
I have delivered the land into his hand.
03 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.
04 And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the
Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand:
and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
05 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they
fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites
and the Perizzites.
06 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after
him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and
his great toes.
07 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings,
having their thumbs and their great toes cut off,
gathered their meat under my table: as I have
done, so God hath requited me. And they brought
him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
08 Now the children 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.
09 And afterward the children of Judah went down
to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in
the mountain, and in the south, and in the
valley.
10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that
dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before
was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai.
11 And from thence he went against the
inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir
before was Kirjathsepher:
12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher,
and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my
daughter to wife.
13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his
daughter to wife.
14 And it came to pass, when she came to him,
that she moved him to ask of her father a field:
and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said
unto her, What wilt thou?
15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for
thou hast given me a south land; give me also
springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper
springs and the nether springs.
16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father
in law, went up out of the city of palm trees
with the children of Judah into the wilderness of
Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they
went and dwelt among the people.
17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and
they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath,
and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the
city was called Hormah.
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof,
and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron
with the coast thereof.
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19 And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out
the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not
drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because
they had chariots of iron.
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses
said: and he expelled thence the three sons of
Anak.
21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out
the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the
Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in
Jerusalem unto this day.
22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up
against Bethel: and the Lord was with them.
23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel.
(Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the
city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray
thee, the entrance into the city, and we will
shew thee mercy.
25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the
city, they smote the city with the edge of the
sword; but they let go the man and all his
family.
26 And 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 drive out the inhabitants
of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her
towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns,
nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor
the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land.
28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong,
that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did
not utterly drive them out.
29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites
that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in
Gezer among them.
30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants
of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but
the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became
tributaries.
31 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:
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 Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath;
but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the
inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath
became tributaries unto them.
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan
into the mountain: for they would not suffer them
to come down to the valley:
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
tributaries.
36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the
going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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