Thematic Bible
Judges 1:1 (show verse)
It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"
Judges 1:2 (show verse)
Yahweh said, "Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand."
Judges 1:3 (show verse)
Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him.
Judges 1:4 (show verse)
Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
Judges 1:5 (show verse)
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:6 (show verse)
But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges 1:7 (show verse)
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 Jerusalem, and he died there.
Judges 1:8 (show verse)
The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Judges 1:9 (show verse)
Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
Judges 1:10 (show verse)
Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:11 (show verse)
From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)
Judges 1:12 (show verse)
Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife."
Judges 1:13 (show verse)
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Judges 1:14 (show verse)
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 Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
Judges 1:15 (show verse)
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." Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Judges 1:16 (show verse)
The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
Judges 1:17 (show verse)
Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
Judges 1:18 (show verse)
Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
Judges 1:19 (show verse)
Yahweh was with Judah; 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.
Judges 1:20 (show verse)
They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
Judges 1:21 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 1:22 (show verse)
The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.
Judges 1:23 (show verse)
The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
Judges 1:24 (show verse)
The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
Judges 1:25 (show verse)
He showed 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.
Judges 1:26 (show verse)
The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
Judges 1:27 (show verse)
Manasseh did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Beth Shean and its towns, nor [of] Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Judges 1:28 (show verse)
It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
Judges 1:29 (show verse)
Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
Judges 1:30 (show verse)
Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
Judges 1:31 (show verse)
Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
Judges 1:32 (show verse)
but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
Judges 1:33 (show verse)
Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
Judges 1:34 (show verse)
The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
Judges 1:35 (show verse)
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 subject to forced labor.
Judges 1:36 (show verse)
The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.