Judges Chapter 1

• Judges 1:1
  After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against t...
• Judges 1:2
  The LORD said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”
• Judges 1:3
  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 lo...
• Judges 1:4
  Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
• Judges 1:5
  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
• Judges 1:6
  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
• Judges 1:7
  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.” Th...
• Judges 1:8
  The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
• Judges 1:9
  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 1:10
  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 1:11
  From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)
• Judges 1:12
  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
• Judges 1:13
  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
• Judges 1:14
  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 1:15
  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 ...
• Judges 1:16
  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, whic...
• Judges 1:17
  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 Ho...
• Judges 1:18
  Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
• Judges 1:19
  The LORD 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...
• Judges 1:20
  They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.
• Judges 1:21
  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...
• Judges 1:22
  The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
• Judges 1:23
  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
• Judges 1:24
  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 1:25
  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 1:26
  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 1:27
  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 in...
• Judges 1:28
  When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
• Judges 1:29
  Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
• Judges 1:30
  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 ...
• Judges 1:31
  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 1:32
  but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.
• Judges 1:33
  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 th...
• Judges 1:34
  The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
• Judges 1:35
  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 subject t...
• Judges 1:36
  The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.