[1] It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of
Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to
fight against them? [2] Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand. [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. [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. [5] They
found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck
the Canaanites and the Perizzites. [6] But Adoni-bezek fled; and they
pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great
toes. [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.
[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. [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. [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. [11]
From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir
before was Kiriath-sepher.) [12] Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath-sepher,
and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife. [13] Othniel
the son of Kenaz, Caleb`s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah
his daughter as wife. [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? [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. Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether
springs. [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. [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. [18] Also Judah took Gaza with the border of
it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and Ekron with the border of it.
[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. [20] They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses
had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak. [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. [22] The house of Joseph, they also went up against
Bethel; and Yahweh was with them. [23] The house of Joseph sent to spy out
Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) [24] The watchers saw a
man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you,
the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you. [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. [26] The man
went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name
of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day. [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. [28] It happened, when Israel had
grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not
utterly drive them out. [29] Ephraim didn`t drive out the Canaanites who
lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. [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.
[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; [32] but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants
of the land; for they did not drive them out. [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. [34] The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country;
for they would not allow 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 subject to
forced labor. [36] The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of
Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
