ULT JDG Chapter 1

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1 And it happened, after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who will go up for us against the Canaanite in the beginning, to fight against him?” 2 And Yahweh said, “Judah will go up. Behold, I have given the land into his hand.” 3 Then Judah said to Simeon, his brother, “Go up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Canaanite. And I will also go with you myself into your allotment.” So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hand. And at Bezek they struck 10,000 men. 5 And they found Adoni-Bezek at Bezek, and they fought against him. And they struck the Canaanite and the Perizzite. 6 Then Adoni-Bezek fled, but they pursued after him, and they seized him, and they cut off the thumbs of his hands and his feet. 7 And Adoni-Bezek said, “70 kings with the thumbs of their hands and their feet cut off were gathering beneath my table. According to what I have done, so God has repaid to me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8 And the sons of Judah fought with Jerusalem and captured it. And they struck it to the mouth of the sword, and they sent the city into fire. 9 And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight with the Canaanite living in the hill country and the Negev and the Shephelah. 10 Then Judah went down to the Canaanite living in Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron previously was Kiriath Arba.) And they struck Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

11 And he went from there against the dwellers of Debir. (Now the name of Debir previously was Kiriath Sepher.) 12 And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath Sepher and takes it, I will then give to him Aksah, my daughter, for a wife.” 13 And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, the one younger than him, captured it. So he gave to him Aksah, his daughter, for a wife. 14 Now it happened, in the coming of her, that she persuaded him to request the field from her father. And she descended from upon the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What for you?” 15 And she said to him, “Give to me a blessing. Since you have given me land of the Negev, you shall also give to me springs of waters.” So Caleb gave to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

16 Now the sons of the Kenite, the father-in-law of Moses, went up from the City of Palms with the sons of Judah to the wilderness of Judah that is in the Negev of Arad. And he went and he dwelled with the people. 17 Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanite dwelling in Zephath. And they devoted it, and they called the name of the city Hormah. 18 And Judah captured Gaza and the territory of it and Ashkelon and the territory of it and Ekron and the territory of it. 19 Now it happened that Yahweh was with Judah and he possessed the hill country. But he did not dispossess the dwellers of the valley, for chariotry of iron was to them. 20 But they gave Hebron to Caleb, according to what Moses had spoken, and he dispossessed from there the three sons of the Anak. 21 But the Jebusite, the dweller of Jerusalem, the sons of Benjamin did not dispossess. So the Jebusite has dwelled with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day.

22 And the house of Joseph, they too went up to Bethel, and Yahweh was with them. 23 And the house of Joseph spied upon Bethel. (Now the name of the city previously was Luz.) 24 And the observers saw a man going out from the city, and they said to him, “Show us, please, the entrance of the city, and we will do kindness with you.” 25 So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city to the mouth of the sword, but the man and all of his family they sent away. 26 Then the man went to the land of the Hittites and he built a city, and he called the name of it Luz. That is the name of it until this day.

27 But Manasseh did not dispossess Beth Shan and its daughters or Taanach and its daughters or the dwellers of Dor and its daughters or the dwellers of Ibleam and its daughters or the dwellers of Megiddo and its daughters, for the Canaanite had resolved to dwell in that land. 28 Now it happened that Israel became strong and he put the Canaanite to forced labor, but he did not dispossess him.

29 And Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanite, the dweller of Gezer, so the Canaanite dwelled in the midst of him in Gezer.

30 Zebulun did not dispossess the dwellers of Kitron or the dwellers of Nahalol, so the Canaanite dwelled in his midst. But they became forced labor.

31 Asher did not dispossess the dwellers of Akko or the dwellers of Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob. 32 So the Asherite dwelled in the midst of the Canaanite, the dweller of the land, because he did not dispossess him.

33 Naphtali did not dispossess the dwellers of Beth Shemesh or the dwellers of Beth Anath. So he dwelled in the midst of the Canaanite, the dwellers of the land. But the dwellers of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced labor for them.

34 And the Amorite, they pressed the sons of Dan into the hill country, for he did not allow him to go down into the valley. 35 And the Amorite resolved to dwell at Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph became heavy and they became forced labor. 36 Now the border of the Amorite was from the Ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.

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