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Judges 1 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Jerusalem Is Captured

(Jos 15:13–19 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:2 - The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Per'izzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5 - They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - And Ado'ni-be'zek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:10 - And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kir'iath-ar'ba); and they defeated She'shai and Ahi'man and Talmai.

Capture of Other Cities

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:11 - From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kir'iath-se'pher.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kir'iath-se'pher and takes it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - And Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, "What do you wish?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - And the descendants of the Ken'ite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad; and they went and settled with the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18 - Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ash'kelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:19 - And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jeb'usites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jeb'usites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 - The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the LORD was with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:26 - And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day.

Places Not Conquered

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:27 - Manas'seh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'an and its villages, or Ta'a-nach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megid'do and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:29 - And E'phraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:30 - Zeb'ulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Na'halol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:31 - Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:32 - but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Naph'tali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Har-heres, in Ai'jalon, and in Sha-al'bim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily upon them, and they became subject to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrab'bim, from Sela and upward.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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