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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Judges 1 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Judges 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/24.htm" title="Joshua 24">◄</a> Judges 1 <a href="../judges/2.htm" title="Judges 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/judges/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Continuing Conquest of Canaan</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Judah went up and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hormah means utter destruction">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.</p> <p class="heading">Failure to Complete the Conquest</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/1-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <i class="catch-word">Hormah</i> means <i>utter destruction</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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