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JudgesWEB
Judges 1:1WEB
After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Judges 1:2WEB
Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Judges 1:3WEB
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.
Judges 1:4WEB
Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Judges 1:5WEB
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:6WEB
But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
Judges 1:7WEB
Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Judges 1:8WEB
The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Judges 1:9WEB
After that, 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.
Judges 1:10WEB
Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:11WEB
From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)
Judges 1:12WEB
Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
Judges 1:13WEB
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
Judges 1:14WEB
When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
Judges 1:15WEB
She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because 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.
Judges 1:16WEB
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.
Judges 1:17WEB
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.
Judges 1:18WEB
Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
Judges 1:19WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Judges 1:20WEB
They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.
Judges 1:21WEB
The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 1:22WEB
The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Judges 1:23WEB
The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
Judges 1:24WEB
The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
Judges 1:25WEB
He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.
Judges 1:26WEB
The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
Judges 1:27WEB
Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor 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.
Judges 1:28WEB
When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
Judges 1:29WEB
Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
Judges 1:30WEB
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.
Judges 1:31WEB
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;
Judges 1:32WEB
but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.
Judges 1:33WEB
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.
Judges 1:34WEB
The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
Judges 1:35WEB
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.
Judges 1:36WEB
The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.