1 After the death of Joshua the Israelites consulted the LORD, asking, "Who shall be first among us to attack the Canaanites and to do battle with them?"
2 The LORD answered, "Judah shall attack: I have delivered the land into his power."
3 Judah then said to his brother Simeon, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, and let us engage the Canaanites in battle. I will likewise accompany you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
4 When the forces of Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their power, and they slew ten thousand of them in Bezek.
5 It was in Bezek that they came upon Adonibezek and fought against him. When they defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites,
6 Adonibezek fled. They set out in pursuit, and when they caught him, cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
7 At this Adonibezek said, "Seventy kings, with their thumbs and big toes cut off, used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so has God repaid me." He was brought to Jerusalem, and there he died.
8 (The Judahites fought against Jerusalem and captured it, putting it to the sword; then they destroyed the city by fire.)
9 Afterward the Judahites went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the mountain region, in the Negeb, and in the foothills.
10 Judah also marched against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron, which was formerly called Kiriath-arba, and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.
11 From there they marched against the inhabitants of Debir, which was formerly called Kiriath-sepher.
12 And Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah in marriage to the one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it."
13 Othniel, son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, captured it; so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.
14 On the day of her marriage to Othniel she induced him to ask her father for some land. Then, as she alighted from the ass, Caleb asked her, "What is troubling you?"
15 Give me an additional gift," she answered. "Since you have assigned land in the Negeb to me, give me also pools of water." So Caleb gave her the upper and the lower pool.
16 The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, came up with the Judahites from the city of palms to the desert at Arad (which is in the Negeb). But they later left and settled among the Amalekites.
17 Judah then went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites who dwelt in Zephath. After having doomed the city to destruction, they renamed it Hormah.
18 Judah, however, did not occupy Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, or Ekron with its territory.
19 Since the LORD was with Judah, he gained possession of the mountain region. Yet he could not dislodge those who lived on the plain, because they had iron chariots.
20 As Moses had commanded, Hebron was given to Caleb, who then drove from it the three sons of Anak.
21 The Benjaminites did not dislodge the Jebusites who dwelt in Jerusalem, with the result that the Jebusites live in Jerusalem beside the Benjaminites to the present day.
22 The house of Joseph, too, marched up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
23 The house of Joseph had a reconnaissance made of Bethel, which formerly was called Luz.
24 The scouts saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, "Show us a way into the city, and we will spare you."
25 He showed them a way into the city, which they then put to the sword; but they let the man and his whole clan go free.
26 He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, as it is still called.
27 Manasseh did not take possession of Beth-shean with its towns or of Taanach with its towns. Neither did he dislodge the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, those of Ibleam and its towns, or those of Megiddo and its towns. The Canaanites kept their hold in this district.
28 When the Israelites grew stronger, they impressed the Canaanites as laborers, but did not drive them out.
29 Similarly, the Ephraimites did not drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, and so the Canaanites live in Gezer in their midst.
30 Zebulun did not dislodge the inhabitants of Kitron or those of Nahalol; the Canaanites live among them, but have become forced laborers.
31 Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or those of Sidon, or take possession of Mahaleb, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik or Rehob.
32 The Asherites live among the Canaanite natives of the land, whom they have not dislodged.
33 Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or those of Beth-anath, and so they live among the Canaanite natives of the land. However, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath have become forced laborers for them.
34 The Amorites hemmed in the Danites in the mountain region, not permitting them to go down into the plain.
35 The Amorites had a firm hold in Harheres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but as the house of Joseph gained the upper hand, they were impressed as laborers.
36 The territory of the Amorites extended from the Akrabbim pass to Sela and beyond.
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Chapter 1 of the book of Judges describes the conquest of several cities by the tribes of Israel after the death of Joshua. However, the chapter also highlights some flaws of the people of Israel, such as the lack of complete destruction of the Canaanites and the covenant with some of them. Following are five verses related to these themes:
Numbers 33:55: "But if you do not expel the inhabitants of the earth from before you, it will happen that those you let will be like sting in your eyes and as thorns in your ishals, and shall tighten you into the earth in which you have dwelling." This verse highlights the importance of the complete expulsion of the pagan peoples of the promised land, something Israel failed to do completely.
Joshua 23:12-13: "For if you break, and cling to the rest of these nations that have stayed between you, and mingle with them, and you unite with them, and they with you, know for sure that the Lord, yours God, will not continue to expel these nations from before you; rather, they will be by loop and by net, and to whip to your dock and thorns to your eyes, until you perish from this good land that gave you the Lord, yours, God." This verse warns against the association with pagan peoples, a practice that Israel failed to avoid completely.
Numbers 32:23: "But if you do not do so, behold, you sinned against the Lord; and know that your sin will find you." This verse highlights the importance of obedience to God and the consequences of disobedience.
Exodus 23:32-33: "Thou shalt not make a covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, that they do not sin against me; for thou shalt serve their gods, which shall be a bond for you." This verse warns against the covenant with pagan peoples, a practice that Israel failed to avoid completely.
Joshua 23:16: "When you violate the covenant of the Lord, your God, whom he ordered you, and forgate and serve other gods, and lean to them, then the wrath of the Lord will light up against you, and then perish from good land that he gave you. " This verse highlights the consequences of infidelity to God, something that the people of Israel experienced on several occasions.
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