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Judges 1 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Continuing Conquest of Canaan

(Jos 15:13–19 )

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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?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:2 - The LORD said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5 - They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:10 - And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:11 - From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - She said to him, “Give me a blessing. 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - And the descendants of the Kenite, 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:18 - Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

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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.

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 - The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

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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.

Failure to Complete the Conquest

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:27 - Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:29 - And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:30 - Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.

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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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:32 - so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:35 - The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Hormah means utter destruction
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