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?
2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
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.
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.
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 meatunder my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they
brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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.
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.
10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before
wasKirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was
Kirjathsepher:
12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my
daughter to wife.
13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his
daughter to wife.
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 herass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
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.
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 liethin the south of Arad; and
they went and dwelt among the people.
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.
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron
with the coast thereof.
19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants ofthe mountain; but could
not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of
Anak.
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.
22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD waswith them.
23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before wasLuz.)
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.
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.

26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof
Luz: which isthe name thereof unto this day.
27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants ofBethshean 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.
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.
30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but
the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
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:
32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not
drive them out.
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.
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer
them to come down to the valley:
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.
36 And the coast of the Amorites wasfrom the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and
upward.
1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of
Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will
never break my covenant with you.
2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their
altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns
in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of
Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his
inheritance to possess the land.
7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that
outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, beingan hundred and ten years old.
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of
Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another
generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt,
and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that wereround about them, and bowed
themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of
spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so
that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD
had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that
spoiled them.
17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods,
and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked
in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; butthey did not so.
18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered
them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because
of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, thatthey returned, and corrupted themselves
more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they
ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath
transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my
voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left
when he died:
22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk
therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered
he them into the hand of Joshua.
1 Now these arethe nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, evenas many of
Israelas had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the
least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the
Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and
Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and
served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and
served Baalim and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of
Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim
eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the
children of Israel, who delivered them, evenOthniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the
LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed
against Chushanrishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened