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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 Literal Standard Version</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="../">LSV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/judges/1-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it comes to pass after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask of YHWH, saying, “Who goes up for us to the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?” <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And YHWH says, “Judah goes up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Judah says to his brother Simeon, “Go up with me into my lot, and we fight against the Canaanite—and I have gone, even I, with you into your lot”; and Simeon goes with him. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Judah goes up, and YHWH gives the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hand, and they strike them in Bezek—ten thousand men; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and strike the Canaanite and the Perizzite. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Adoni-Bezek flees, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and Adoni-Bezek says, “Seventy kings—their thumbs and their great toes cut off—have been gathering under my table; as I have done so God has repaid to me”; and they bring him to Jerusalem, and he dies there.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the sons of Judah fight against Jerusalem, and capture it, and strike it by the mouth of the sword, and they have sent the city into fire; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and afterward the sons of Judah have gone down to fight against the Canaanite inhabiting the hill-country, and the south, and the low country; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and Judah goes to the Canaanite who is dwelling in Hebron (and the name of Hebron [was] formerly Kirjath-Arba), and they strike Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he goes there to the inhabitants of Debir (and the name of Debir [was] formerly Kirjath-Sepher), <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and Caleb says, “He who strikes Kirjath-Sepher and has captured it—then I have given my daughter Achsah to him for a wife.” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Othniel son of Kenaz, younger brother of Caleb, captures it, and he gives his daughter Achsah to him for a wife. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And it comes to pass in her coming in, that she persuades him to ask from her father the field, and she comes down off the donkey, and Caleb says to her, “What do you [want]?” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she says to him, “Give a blessing to me; when you have given me the south land—then you have given springs of water to me”; and Caleb gives the upper springs and the lower springs to her.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the sons of the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, have gone up out of the city of palms with the sons of Judah [to] the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in the south of Arad, and they go and dwell with the people. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Judah goes with his brother Simeon, and they strike the Canaanite inhabiting Zephath, and devote it; and [one] calls the name of the city Hormah. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Judah captures Gaza and its border, and Askelon and its border, and Ekron and its border; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and YHWH is with Judah, and he occupies the hill-country, but not to dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, for they have chariots of iron. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they give Hebron to Caleb, as Moses has spoken, and he dispossesses the three sons of Anak there. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin have not dispossessed the Jebusite inhabiting Jerusalem; and the Jebusite dwells with the sons of Benjamin, in Jerusalem, until this day.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the house of Joseph goes up—even they—to Beth-El, and YHWH [is] with them; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and the house of Joseph causes [men] to spy out Beth-El (and the name of the city [was] formerly Luz), <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and the watchers see a man coming out from the city, and say to him, “Please show us the entrance of the city, and we have done kindness with you.” <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he shows them the entrance of the city, and they strike the city by the mouth of the sword, and they have sent the man and all his family away; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and the man goes to the land of the Hittites, and builds a city, and calls its name Luz—it [is] its name to this day.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Manasseh has not occupied Beth-Shean and its towns, and Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Iblaim and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in that land; <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and it comes to pass, when Israel has been strong, that he sets the Canaanite to forced labor, and has not utterly dispossessed it.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Ephraim has not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwells in its midst, in Gezer.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Zebulun has not dispossessed the inhabitants of Kitron, and the inhabitants of Nahalol, and the Canaanite dwells in its midst, and they become forced labor.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Asher has not dispossessed the inhabitants of Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob; <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and the Asherite dwells in the midst of the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land, for it has not dispossessed them.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Naphtali has not dispossessed the inhabitants of Beth-Shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-Anath, and he dwells in the midst of the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-Shemesh and of Beth-Anath were for forced labor for them.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And the Amorites press the sons of Dan to the mountain, for they have not permitted them to go down to the valley; <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and the Amorite is desirous to dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, and the hand of the house of Joseph is heavy, and they are for forced labor; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/1-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and the border of the Amorite [is] from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock and upward.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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