07_JUD_01_01 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

07_JUD_01_02 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

07_JUD_01_03 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

07_JUD_01_04 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

07_JUD_01_05 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

07_JUD_01_06 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

07_JUD_01_07 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat] under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

07_JUD_01_08 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

07_JUD_01_09 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

07_JUD_01_10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: [now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:] and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

07_JUD_01_11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher:

07_JUD_01_12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

07_JUD_01_13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

07_JUD_01_14 And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

07_JUD_01_15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

07_JUD_01_16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

07_JUD_01_17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

07_JUD_01_18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

07_JUD_01_19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out [the inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

07_JUD_01_20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

07_JUD_01_21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

07_JUD_01_22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD [was] with them.

07_JUD_01_23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. [Now the name of the city before [was] Luz.]

07_JUD_01_24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will show thee mercy.

07_JUD_01_25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.

07_JUD_01_26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which [is] the name thereof unto this day.

07_JUD_01_27 Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

07_JUD_01_28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

07_JUD_01_29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

07_JUD_01_30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

07_JUD_01_31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

07_JUD_01_32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

07_JUD_01_33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.

07_JUD_01_34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

07_JUD_01_35 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 tributaries.

07_JUD_01_36 And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.