Judges 1
1:1And it came to pass after the decease of Joshua, that the sons of Israel asked in the lord, saying, Who shall ascend with us against the Canaanite guiding to wage war against them.
1:2And the lord said, Judah shall ascend; behold, I have put the land in his hand.
1:3And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Ascend with me unto my lot, for we should wage war with the Canaanite, and I shall go also with you unto your lot. And Simeon went with him.
1:4And Judah ascended. And the lord gave the Canaanite and the Perizzite into his hand; and they struck them in Bezek -- ten thousand men.
1:5And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek. And they waged war with him, and they struck the Canaanite and the Perizzite.
1:6And Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off the thumbs of his hands, and the big toes of his feet.
1:7And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings the thumbs of their hands, and the big toes of their feet being cut off were collected together underneath my table. As then I did, so God recompensed to me. And they led him unto Jerusalem, and he died there.
1:8And the sons of Judah waged war with Jerusalem, and overtook it, and struck it by the mouth of the broadsword, and the city they burnt with fire.
1:9And after these things the sons of Judah went down to wage war with the Canaanite dwelling the mountainous area, and the south, and the plain country.
1:10And Judah went to the Canaanite dwelling in Hebron; and the name Hebron was formerly Kirjath-arba. And they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, offspring of the Anak.
1:11And they went from there to the ones dwelling in Debir; and the name Debir was formerly Kirjath-sepher -- City of Letters.
1:12And Caleb said, Who ever should strike the City of Letters, and be first to take it, I will give to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.
1:13And first to take it was Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb. And he gave to him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
1:14And it came to pass in her entering, that he stirred her to ask for a field from her father. And she grumbled upon her beast of burden. And Caleb said to her, What is it with you?
1:15And Achsah said to him, Give indeed to me a blessing, for into the land of the south you have handed me over, and you shall give to me a ransoming of water. And Caleb gave to her the ransom of the elevated springs, and the ransom of the ones below.
1:16And the sons of Jothor the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, ascended from out of the city of the palms to the sons of Judah, into the wilderness of Judah, the one being in the south upon the descent of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.
1:17And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanite dwelling in Zephath, and they devoted it to consumption, and utterly destroyed it. And they called the name of the city, Devastation.
1:18And Judah inherited Gaza and her border; and Ekron and her border, and Ashkelon and her border and Ashdod and her outskirts.
1:19And the lord was with Judah; and he inherited the mountain, for he was not able to inherit the ones dwelling in the valley, for it was separated to them, and there were chariots of iron to them.
1:20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses spoke. And he removed there the three sons of Anak.
1:21And the sons of Benjamin did not remove the Jebusite dwelling Jerusalem. And the Jebusite dwelt with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day.
1:22And the sons of Joseph ascended, and indeed they went into Beth-el, and the lord was with them.
1:23And they camped, and surveyed Beth-el; and the name of the city was formerly Luz.
1:24And the ones keeping guard beheld a man going forth from out of the city, and they took him, and they said to him, Show to us the entrance of the city, and we will deal mercifully with you.
1:25And he showed to them the entrance of the city; and they struck the city by the mouth of the broadsword; but the man and his kin they sent out.
1:26And the man went forth into the land of the Hittite, and he built there a city, and he called the name of it, Luz; this is its name until this day.
1:27And Manasseh did not remove Beth-shean nor its daughter towns, nor Taanach and her daughter towns, nor the ones dwelling in Dor and her daughter towns, nor the ones dwelling Megiddo and her daughter towns, nor the ones dwelling Ibleam nor her daughter towns. And the Canaanite began to dwell in this land.
1:28And it came to pass when Israel grew in strength, that he established the Canaanite for tribute, but by removing he did not remove him.
1:29And Ephraim did not remove the Canaanite dwelling in Gezer; and the Canaanite dwelt in the midst of him in Gezer.
1:30And Zebulun did not remove the ones dwelling in Kitron, and the ones dwelling Nahalol. And the Canaanite dwelt in the midst of them, and it became for tribute.
1:31And Asher did not remove the ones dwelling Accho, and the ones dwelling Sidon, and the ones dwelling Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob.
1:32And Asher dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite dwelling in the land; for he was not able to remove him.
1:33And Naphtali did not remove the ones dwelling in Beth-shemesh, and the ones dwelling in Beth-anath. And Naphtali dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite dwelling in the land. But the ones dwelling in Beth-shemesh and in Beth-anath became to them for tribute.
1:34And the Amorite squeezed out the sons of Dan into the mountain; for they did not let him go down into the valley.
1:35And the Amorite began to dwell in mount Heres of which the bears and the foxes are; and the hand of the house of Joseph was oppressive upon the Amorite, and he became for tribute.
1:36And the border of the Amorite was from the ascending of Akrabbim, from the rock, and above.