Judges 1 Introduction 1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the

LORD, saying, ho shall !e first to go up for us against the "anaanites to fight against them#$ % &nd the LORD said, Judah shall go up' Indeed I ha(e deli(ered the land into his hand'$ ) *o Judah said to *imeon his !rother, "ome up with me to my allotted territory, that we may fight against the "anaanites+ and I will likewise go with you to your allotted territory'$ &nd *imeon went with him' , -hen Judah went up, and the LORD deli(ered the "anaanites and the .eri//ites into their hand+ and they killed ten thousand men at 0e/ek' 1 &nd they found &doni20e/ek in 0e/ek, and fought against him+ and they defeated the "anaanites and the .eri//ites' 3 -hen &doni20e/ek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thum!s and !ig toes' 4 &nd &doni20e/ek said, *e(enty kings with their thum!s and !ig toes cut off used to gather scraps under my ta!le+ as I ha(e done, so 5od has repaid me'$ -hen they !rought him to Jerusalem, and there he died' 6 Now the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it+ they struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire' 7 &nd afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the "anaanites who dwelt in the mountains, in the *outh, and in the lowland' 18 -hen Judah went against the "anaanites who dwelt in 9e!ron' :Now the name of 9e!ron was formerly ;ir<ath &r!a'= &nd they killed *heshai, &himan, and -almai' 11 >rom there they went against the inha!itants of De!ir' :-he name of De!ir was formerly ;ir<ath *epher'= 1% -hen "ale! said, hoe(er attacks ;ir<ath *epher and takes it, to him I will gi(e my daughter &chsah as wife'$ 1) &nd Othniel the son of ;ena/, "ale!?s younger !rother, took it+ so he ga(e him his daughter &chsah as wife' 1, Now it happened, when she came to him, that she urged him to ask her father for a field' &nd she dismounted from her donkey, and "ale! said to her, hat do you wish#$ 11 *o she said to him, 5i(e me a !lessing+ since you ha(e gi(en me land in the *outh, gi(e me also springs of water'$ &nd "ale! ga(e her the upper springs and the lower springs' 13 Now the children of the ;enite, @oses? father2in2law, went up from the "ity of .alms with the children of Judah into the ilderness of Judah, which lies in the *outh near &rad+ and they went and dwelt among the people' 14 &nd Judah went with his !rother *imeon, and they attacked the "anaanites who inha!ited Aephath, and utterly destroyed it' *o the name of the city was called 9ormah' 16 &lso Judah took 5a/a with its territory, &shkelon with its territory, and Bkron with its territory' 17 *o the LORD was with Judah' &nd they dro(e out the mountaineers, !ut they could not dri(e out the inha!itants of the lowland, !ecause they had chariots of iron' %8 &nd they ga(e 9e!ron to "ale!, as @oses had said' -hen he eCpelled from there the three sons of &nak' %1 0ut the children of 0en<amin did not dri(e out the Je!usites who inha!ited Jerusalem+ so the Je!usites dwell with the children of 0en<amin in Jerusalem to this day' %% &nd the house of Joseph also went up against 0ethel, and the LORD was with them' %) *o the house of Joseph sent men to spy out 0ethel' :-he name of the city was formerly Lu/'= %, &nd when 1

the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, .lease show us the entrance to the city, and we will show you mercy'$ %1 *o he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword+ !ut they let the man and all his family go' %3 &nd the man went to the land of the 9ittites, !uilt a city, and called its name Lu/, which is its name to this day' %4 9owe(er, @anasseh did not dri(e out the inha!itants of 0eth *hean and its (illages, or -aanach and its (illages, or the inha!itants of Dor and its (illages, or the inha!itants of I!leam and its (illages, or the inha!itants of @egiddo and its (illages+ for the "anaanites were determined to dwell in that land' %6 &nd it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the "anaanites under tri!ute, !ut did not completely dri(e them out' %7 Nor did Bphraim dri(e out the "anaanites who dwelt in 5e/er+ so the "anaanites dwelt in 5e/er among them' )8 Nor did Ae!ulun dri(e out the inha!itants of ;itron or the inha!itants of Nahalol+ so the "anaanites dwelt among them, and were put under tri!ute' )1 Nor did &sher dri(e out the inha!itants of &cco or the inha!itants of *idon, or of &hla!, &ch/i!, 9el!ah, &phik, or Reho!' )% *o the &sherites dwelt among the "anaanites, the inha!itants of the land+ for they did not dri(e them out' )) Nor did Naphtali dri(e out the inha!itants of 0eth *hemesh or the inha!itants of 0eth &nath+ !ut they dwelt among the "anaanites, the inha!itants of the land' Ne(ertheless the inha!itants of 0eth *hemesh and 0eth &nath were put under tri!ute to them' ), &nd the &morites forced the children of Dan into the mountains, for they would not allow them to come down to the (alley+ )1 and the &morites were determined to dwell in @ount 9eres, in &i<alon, and in *haal!im+a yet when the strength of the house of Joseph !ecame greater, they were put under tri!ute' )3 Now the !oundary of the &morites was from the &scent of &kra!!im, from *ela, and upward' Conclusion