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Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand." <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Jerusalem and Hebron Captured</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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.</p> <a name="11" id="11"></a><p class="hdg">Additional Cities Captured<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../joshua/15.htm#13">Joshua 15:13-19</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Places Not Conquered</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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