Judges, Chapter 1:
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Verses from Judges, Chapter 1 of the book of Judges in the Bible.
Israel fights against the remaining Canaanites
- 1. After Joshua’s death, the Israelites turned to the Lord and asked, “Who will be the first to attack the Canaanites?”
- 2. The Lord answered, “Judah will be first; I have given the land into your hands.”
- 3. Then the men of Judah said to their brothers in Simeon, “Come with us to the territory assigned to us by lot, and let us fight against the Canaanites. We will go to the territory together.” And Simeon's men went with them.
- 4. When the men of Judah attacked, the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they killed ten thousand men in Bezek.
- 5. It was there that they met Adoni-Bezek, fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
- 6. Adoni-Bezek fled, but they pursued him and arrested him, and cut off his thumbs and his thumbs.
- 7. Then Adoni-Bezek said: “Seventy kings with their thumbs and toes cut off were picking up crumbs under my table. Now God has repaid me for what I did.” They took him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- 8. The men of Judah also attacked Jerusalem and conquered it. They killed all its inhabitants with the sword and set it on fire.
- 9. After that, they went down to fight the Canaanites who lived in the mountains, in the Negev and in Shephelah.
- 10. They advanced against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron, formerly called Kiriath-arba, and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.
- 11. From there they advanced against the people who lived in Debir, formerly called Kiriath-sefer.
- 12. And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the man who attacks and conquers Kiriath-sepher.”
- 13. Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, conquered the city; So Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.
- 14. One day, when she was already living with Otoniel, she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. As soon as she got off the donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you want?”
- 15. She replied: “Give me a gift. You gave me a dry land; also give me springs of water.” Then Caleb gave him the upper springs and the lower springs.
- 16. The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, left the City of Palms with the men of Judah and lived among the people of the desert of Judah, in the Negeb, near Arad.
- 17. Then the men of Judah went with their brothers from Simeon and defeated the Canaanites who lived in Zephath, and completely destroyed the city. That's why she was called Hormah.
- 18. The men of Judah also conquered Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron, with their territories.
- 19. The Lord was with the men of Judah. They occupied the central mountain range, but they were unable to expel the inhabitants of the valleys, as they had war chariots made of iron.
- 20. As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who expelled the three sons of Anak from there.
- 21. However, the Benjamites were unable to expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live there with the Benjamites to this day.
- 22. The men of Joseph's tribes also attacked Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
- 23. They sent spies to Bethel, formerly called Luz.
- 24. When the spies saw a man leaving the city, they said to him, “Show us how to enter the city, and we will spare your life.”
- 25. He showed them how to enter, and they killed all the inhabitants of the city with the sword, but they spared the man and his entire family.
- 26. He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he founded a city and named it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- 27. But the tribe of Manasseh did not expel the people of Bethshean, the people of Taanach, the people of Dor, the people of Ibleam, the people of Megiddo, nor the people of the villages around these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to remain in that city. Earth.
- 28. When Israel became strong, it imposed forced labor on the Canaanites, but did not completely expel them.
- 29. Ephraim also did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live among them.
- 30. Zebulun did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Chithrom and Nahalol, but they remained among them and were subjected to forced labor.
- 31. Asher did not expel those who lived in Acco, Sidon, Alab, Achzib, Helba, Aphek and Rehob,
- 32. and for this reason, the Asherites lived among the Canaanites who inhabited that land.
- 33. Naphtali did not expel those who lived in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath; but the Naphthalites lived among the Canaanites who inhabited the land, and those who lived in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath began to do forced labor for them.
- 34. The Amorites confined the tribe of Dan to the central mountain range, not allowing them to go down to the valley.
- 35. And the Amorites also were determined to resist in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. But as Joseph's tribes grew more powerful, they too were subjected to forced labor.
- 36. The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Ahrabim to Shelah, and beyond.
