Judges 1

1After 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?”Cross-references: Ex 28:30 · Num 27:21 · Josh 24:29 · Judg 1:27 · Judg 3:1 · Judg 20:18 · +3 more

2Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”Cross-references: Gen 49:8 · Num 2:3 · Num 7:12 · Ps 78:68 · Heb 7:14 · Rev 5:5 · +1 more

3Judah 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.Cross-references: Gen 29:33 · Josh 19:1 · Judg 1:17 · 2Sam 10:11

4Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.Cross-references: Ex 23:28 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 9:3 · Josh 10:8 · Josh 11:6 · 1Sam 11:8 · +5 more

5They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

6But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

7Adoni-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.Cross-references: Ex 21:23 · Lev 24:19 · 1Sam 15:33 · Isa 33:1 · Matt 7:1 · Luke 6:37 · +4 more

8The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.Cross-references: Josh 15:63 · Judg 1:21

9After 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.Cross-references: Josh 10:36 · Josh 11:21 · Josh 15:13

10Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.Cross-references: Num 13:22 · Num 13:33 · Josh 14:15 · Josh 15:13 · Judg 1:20 · Ps 33:16 · +2 more

11From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)Cross-references: Josh 10:38 · Josh 15:15

12Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”Cross-references: Josh 15:16 · 1Sam 17:25 · 1Sam 18:23

13Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.Cross-references: Judg 3:9

14When 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?”Cross-references: Josh 15:18

15She 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.Cross-references: Gen 33:11 · 1Sam 25:18 · 1Sam 25:27 · 2Cor 9:5 · Heb 6:7 · 1Pet 3:9

16The 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.Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 4:18 · Ex 18:1 · Ex 18:7 · Ex 18:12 · Ex 18:14 · +13 more

17Judah 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.Cross-references: Num 14:45 · Num 21:3 · Josh 19:4 · Judg 1:3 · 2Chr 14:10

18Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.Cross-references: Ex 23:31 · Josh 11:22 · Josh 13:3 · Josh 15:45 · Judg 3:3 · Judg 16:1 · +2 more

19Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Gen 39:2 · Gen 39:21 · Ex 14:7 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · Josh 7:12 · +22 more

20They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.Cross-references: Num 13:22 · Num 14:24 · Deut 1:36 · Josh 14:9 · Josh 15:13 · Josh 21:11 · +1 more

21The 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.Cross-references: Josh 15:63 · Josh 18:11 · Judg 1:8 · Judg 19:10 · 2Sam 5:6

22The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.Cross-references: Gen 49:24 · Num 1:10 · Num 1:32 · Josh 14:4 · Josh 16:1 · Judg 1:19 · +3 more

23The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)Cross-references: Gen 28:19 · Gen 35:6 · Gen 48:3 · Josh 2:1 · Josh 7:2 · Judg 18:2

24The 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.”Cross-references: Josh 2:12 · 1Sam 30:15

25He 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.Cross-references: Josh 6:22

26The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.Cross-references: 2Ki 7:6 · 2Chr 1:17

27Manasseh 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.Cross-references: Ex 23:32 · Deut 7:2 · Josh 17:11 · Josh 21:25 · Judg 1:1 · Judg 5:19 · +3 more

28When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

29Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.Cross-references: Josh 16:10 · 1Ki 9:16

30Zebulun 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.Cross-references: Josh 19:15

31Asher 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;Cross-references: Josh 19:24

32but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.Cross-references: Ps 106:34

33Naphtali 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.Cross-references: Josh 19:32 · Judg 1:30 · Judg 1:35 · Ps 18:24

34The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;Cross-references: Josh 19:47 · Judg 18:1

35but 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.Cross-references: Josh 10:12 · Josh 19:42 · Judg 12:12 · 1Ki 4:9

36The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.Cross-references: Num 34:4 · Josh 15:2