Judges 1:1-18
The Fight Against the Canaanites
1Now it happened after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel aasked of 1Yahweh, saying, “Who shall go up first for us bagainst the Canaanites, to fight against them?” 2And Yahweh said, “aJudah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.” 3Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into 1the territory allotted me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and 2I in turn will go with you into 3the territory allotted you.” So Simeon went with him. 4So Judah went up, and aYahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down 10,000 men at Bezek. 5Then they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they struck down the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and seized him and cut off his 1thumbs and big toes. 7And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; aas I have done, so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
8Then the sons of Judah fought against aJerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. 9And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the 1Negev and in the 2Shephelah. 10aSo Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba); and they struck Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
11Then afrom there he went against the inhabitants of Debir (now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher). 12And Caleb said, “The one who strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will even give him my daughter Achsah as a wife.” 13aThen Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife. 14Now ait happened that when she came to him, she enticed him to ask her father for the field. Then she alighted from 1her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What 2do you want?” 15And she said to him, “Give me a blessing, since you have given me the land of the 1Negev, so you shall give me also springs of water.” So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
16Now the sons of athe Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the bcity of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of cArad; and they went and lived with the people. 17Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called aHormah. 18And Judah captured aGaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.