Judges 1 · שופטים

Now after the death of Yehoshua it came to pass, that the children of Yisra᾽el asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Kena῾ani first, to fight against them?

And the Lord said, Yehuda shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

And Yehuda said to Shim῾on his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Kena῾ani; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Shim῾on went with him.

And Yehuda went up; and the Lord delivered the Kena῾ani and the Perizzi into their hand: and they smote of them in Bezeq ten thousand men.

And they found Adoni-bezeq in Bezeq: and they fought against him, and they smote the Kena῾ani and the Perizzi.

But Adoni-bezeq fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

And Adoni-bezeq said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered food under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Yerushalayim, and there he died.

Now the children of Yehuda fought against Yerushalayim, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

And afterwards the children of Yehuda went down to fight against the Kena῾ani, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the Negev, and in the coastal plain.

And Yehuda went against the Kena῾ani that dwelt in Ḥevron: (now the name of Ḥevron before was Qiryat-arba:) and they smote Sheshay, and Aĥiman, and Talmay.

And from there he went against the inhabitants of Devir: and the name of Devir before was Qiryat-sefer:

and Kalev said, He that smites Qiryat-sefer, and takes it, to him will I give ῾Akhsa my daughter to wife.

And ῾Otni᾽el the son of Qenaz, Kalev’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him ῾Akhsa his daughter to wife.

And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from her ass; and Kalev said to her, What wilt thou?

And she said to him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a Negev land; give me also pools of water. And Kalev gave her the upper pools and the lower pools.

And the children of the Qeni, Moshe’s father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Yehuda into the wilderness of Yehuda, which lies in the south of ῾Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

And Yehuda went with Shim῾on his brother, and they slew the Kena῾ani that inhabited Żefat, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Ḥorma.

And Yehuda took ῾Azza with its border, and Ashqelon with its border, and ῾Eqron with its border.

And the Lord was with Yehuda; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

And they gave Ḥevron to Kalev, as Moshe said: and he expelled from there the three sons of ῾Anaq.

And the children of Binyamin did not drive out the Yevusi, that inhabited Yerushalayim; but the Yevusi dwell with the children of Binyamin in Yerushalayim to this day.

And the house of Yosef, they too went up against Bet-el: and the Lord was with them.

And the house of Yosef sent to spy out Bet-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

And the scouts saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee.

And when he showed them the entrance to the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go free.

And the man went into the land of the Ḥittim, and built a city, and called its name Luz: which is its name to this day.

Neither did Menashshe drive out the inhabitants of Bet-she᾽an and its hamlets, nor Ta῾nakh and its hamlets, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its hamlets, nor the inhabitants of Yivle῾am and its hamlets, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its hamlets: but the Kena῾ani persisted in dwelling in that land.

And it came to pass, when Yisra᾽el was strong, that they put the Kena῾ani to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

Neither did Efrayim drive out the Kena῾ani that dwelt in Gezer; but the Kena῾ani dwelt in Gezer among them.

Neither did Zevulun drive out the inhabitants of Qitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Kena῾ani dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of ῾Akko, nor the inhabitants of Żidon, nor of Aĥlav, nor of Akhziv, nor of Ḥelba, nor of Afiq, nor of Reĥov.

But the Asheri dwelt among the Kena῾ani, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

Neither did Naftali drive out the inhabitants of Bet-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bet-῾anat; but he dwelt among the Kena῾ani, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bet-shemesh and of Bet-῾anat became tributaries to them.

And the Emori forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not allow them to come down to the valley:

but the Emori persisted in dwelling in mount Ḥeres in Ayyalon, and in Sha῾alvim: yet the hand of the house of Yosef prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

And the border of the Emori was from Ma῾ale-῾aqrabbim, from the rock upwards.