1 ¶ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? See also: Numbers 27:21 Judges 20:18 Judges 20:28 Exodus 28:30 1 Samuel 23:9-10
2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. See also: Revelation 5:5 Hebrews 7:14 Genesis 49:8-10 Numbers 2:3 Numbers 7:12
3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. See also: Joshua 19:1 Judges 1:17 2 Samuel 10:11 Genesis 29:33
4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. See also: Joshua 11:6-8 1 Samuel 11:8 Exodus 23:28-29 Deuteronomy 7:2 Deuteronomy 9:3
5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. See also: Revelation 13:10 1 Samuel 15:33 Leviticus 24:19-21 Luke 6:37-38 James 2:13
8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. See also: Joshua 15:63 Judges 1:21
9 ¶ And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley. See also: Joshua 10:36 Joshua 11:21 Joshua 15:13-20
10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. See also: Numbers 13:22 Joshua 14:15 Numbers 13:33 Joshua 15:13-19 Judges 1:20
11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher: See also: Joshua 15:15 Joshua 10:38-39
12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. See also: Joshua 15:16-17 1 Samuel 17:25 1 Samuel 18:23
13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. See also: Judges 3:9
14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? See also: Joshua 15:18-19
15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs. See also: Hebrews 6:7 1 Peter 3:9 Genesis 33:11 1 Samuel 25:18 1 Samuel 25:27
16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. See also: Numbers 10:29-32 Judges 4:11 1 Samuel 15:6 Numbers 21:1 Deuteronomy 34:3
17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah. See also: Numbers 21:3 Numbers 14:45 Joshua 19:4 Judges 1:3 2 Chronicles 14:10
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. See also: Joshua 11:22 Judges 3:3 Exodus 23:31 Joshua 13:3 Joshua 15:45-47
19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. See also: Psalms 60:12 Isaiah 41:10 Judges 1:2 Isaiah 41:14-15 Matthew 1:23
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. See also: Judges 1:10 Numbers 14:24 Deuteronomy 1:36 Joshua 15:13-14 Numbers 13:22
21 ¶ And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. See also: Joshua 15:63 Joshua 18:11-28 Judges 1:8 Judges 19:10-12 2 Samuel 5:6-9
22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them. See also: Judges 1:19 Genesis 49:24 Numbers 1:10 Numbers 1:32 Joshua 14:4
23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) See also: Genesis 28:19 Genesis 48:3 Genesis 35:6 Joshua 2:1 Joshua 7:2
24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. See also: Joshua 2:12-14 1 Samuel 30:15
25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. See also: Joshua 6:22-25
26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day. See also: 2 Kings 7:6 2 Chronicles 1:17
27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. See also: Joshua 17:11-13 Psalms 106:34-35 Jeremiah 48:10 1 Samuel 15:9 Exodus 23:32
28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. See also: Joshua 16:10 1 Kings 9:16
30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. See also: Joshua 19:15
31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: See also: Joshua 19:24-30
32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out. See also: Psalms 106:34-35
33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them. See also: Joshua 19:32-38 Psalms 18:24 Judges 1:30 Judges 1:35
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: See also: Joshua 19:47 Judges 18:1
35 But 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 tributaries. See also: Joshua 10:12 Joshua 19:42 Judges 12:12 1 Kings 4:9
36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. See also: Numbers 34:4 Joshua 15:2-3