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¹ It happened after the death of Yehoshua, the children of Yisra'el asked of the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Kana`anim, to fight against them?

² The LORD said, Yehudah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

³ Yehudah said to Shim`on his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Kana`anim; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Shim`on went with him.

⁴ Yehudah went up; and the LORD delivered the Kana`anim and the Perizzi into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

⁵ They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Kana`anim and the Perizzi.

⁶ But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

⁷ Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died there.

⁸ The children of Yehudah fought against Yerushalayim, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

⁹ Afterward the children of Yehudah went down to fight against the Kana`anim who lived in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

¹⁰ Yehudah went against the Kana`anim who lived in Hevron (now the name of Hevron before was Kiryat-Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai.

¹¹ From there he went against the inhabitants of Devir. (Now the name of Devir before was Kiryat-Sefer.)

¹² Kalev said, He who strikes Kiryat-Sefer, and takes it, to him will I give `Akhsah my daughter as wife.

¹³ `Otni'el the son of Kenaz, Kalev's younger brother, took it: and he gave him `Akhsah his daughter as wife.

¹⁴ It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Kalev said to her, What would you?

¹⁵ She said to him, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. Kalev gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

¹⁶ The children of the Keni, Moshe' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Yehudah into the wilderness of Yehudah, which is in the south of `Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

¹⁷ Yehudah went with Shim`on his brother, and they struck the Kana`anim who inhabited Tzefat, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

¹⁸ Also Yehudah took `Aza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and `Ekron with the border of it.

¹⁹ The LORD was with Yehudah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

²⁰ They gave Hevron to Kalev, as Moshe had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of `Anak.

²¹ The children of Binyamin did not drive out the Yevusi who inhabited Yerushalayim; but the Yevusi dwell with the children of Binyamin in Yerushalayim to this day.

²² The house of Yosef, they also went up against Beit-El; and the LORD was with them.

²³ The house of Yosef sent to spy out Beit-El. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

²⁴ The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.

²⁵ He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.

²⁶ The man went into the land of the Hitti, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.

²⁷ Menashsheh did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Beit-She'an and its towns, nor [of] Ta`nakh and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Yivle`am and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Kana`anim would dwell in that land.

²⁸ It happened, when Yisra'el had grown strong, that they put the Kana`anim to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

²⁹ Efrayim didn't drive out the Kana`anim who lived in Gezer; but the Kana`anim lived in Gezer among them.

³⁰ Zevulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Kana`anim lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.

³¹ Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of `Akko, nor the inhabitants of Tzidon, nor of Achlav, nor of Akhziv, nor of Helbah, nor of Afik, nor of Rechov;

³² but the Asheri lived among the Kana`anim, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

³³ Naftali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beit-`Anat; but he lived among the Kana`anim, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh and of Beit-`Anat became subject to forced labor.

³⁴ The Amori forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

³⁵ but the Amori would dwell in Mount Heres, in Ayalon, and in Sha`alvim: yet the hand of the house of Yosef prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

³⁶ The border of the Amori was from the ascent of `Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.