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Judges 1

1 After Joshúa was dead, Judáh was constutite captaine. 6 Adoni-bézek is taken. 14 The request of Achsáh. 16 The children of Kení. 19 The Canaanites are made tributaries, but not destroyed.
1.After that Joshúa was dead, the children of Israél aasked the Lord, saying, bWho shal go up for us against the Canaanites, to fight first against them?
2.And the Lord said, Judáh shal go up: beholde, I have given the land into his hand.
3.And Judáh said unto Simeón his cbrother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites: and I likewise wil go with thee into thy lot: so Simeón went with him.
4.Then Judáh went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they slewe of them in Bézek ten thousand men.
5.And they founde ^Adoni-bézek in Bézek: and they fought against him, and slewe the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
6.But Adoni-bézek fled, & they pursued after him, and caught him, and dcut of the thumbes of his hands and of his fete.
7.And Adoni-bézek said, Seventie Kings having the thumbes of their hands and of their fete cut of, gathered bread under my table: as I have done, so God hathe rewarded me, so they broght him to Jerusalém, and there he dyed.
8.(Now the children of Judáh had fought against Jerusalém, and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and had set the ecitie on fire)
9.¶ Afterwarde also the children of Judáh went downe to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountaine, and toward to South, and in the lowe countrey.
10.And Judáh went against the Canaanites, that dwelt in Hebrón, which Hebrón beforetime was called *Kiriath-arbá: and they slew fSheshái, and Ahimán and Talmái. F JUDGES.
11.And from thence he went to the inhabitants of Debír, and the name of Debír in olde time was Kiriath-sépher.
12.And Caléb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sépher, and taketh it, even to him wil I give Achsáh my daughter to wife.
13.And Othniél the sonne of Kenáz Calebs yonger brother toke it, to whome he gave Achsáh his daughter to wife.
14.And when she came to him, she moved him to aske of her father a field, gand she lighted of her asse, and Caléb said unto her, What wilt thou?
15.And she answered him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a South countrey, give me also springs of water: and Caléb gave her the springs above and the springs beneth.
16.¶ And the children of hKení Mosés father in lawe went up out of the citie of the palmetrees with the children of Judáh, into the wildernes of Judáh, that lieth in the South of Arád, and went and dwelt among the people.
17.But Judáh went with Simeón his brother, and they slewe the Canaanites that inhabited Zepháth, and utterly destroyed it, and called the name of the citie *Hormáh.
18.Also Judáh toke iAzzáh with the coastes thereof, and Askelón with the coastes thereof, and Ekrón with the coastes thereof.
19.And the Lord was with Judáh, and he possessed the mountaines: for he colde not drive out the inhabitants of the valleys, because they had charets of yron.
20.And they gave Hebrón unto Caléb, as *Mosés had said, and he expelled thence the thre sonnes of Anák.
21.But the children of Benjamín did not cast out the Jebusites, that kinhabited Jerusalém: therefore the Jebusites dwel with the children of Benjamín in Jerusalém unto this day.
22.¶ They also that were of the house of Joséph, went up to Beth-él, and the Lord was with them,
23.And the house of Joséph caused to vewe Beth-él (and the name of the citie beforetime was *Luz)
24.And the spies sawe a man come out of the citie, and they said unto him, Shewe us, we pray thee, the way into the citie, *and we wil shewe thee mercie.
25.And when he had shewed them the way into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his housholde departe.
26.Then the man went into the land of the Hittites, and buylt a citie, & called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day.
27.*Nether did Manasséh destroy Beth-sheán with her townes, nor Taanách with her townes, nor the inhabitants of Dor with her townes, nor the inhabitants of Ibleám with her townes, nether the inhabitants of Megiddó with her townes: lbut the Canaanites dwelled stil in that land.
28.Nevertheles when Israél was strog, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly.
29.*Likewise Ephráim expelled not the Canaanites that dwelt in Gézer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gézer among them.
30.¶ Nether did mZebulún expel the inhabitants of Kitrón, nor the inhabitants of Nahalól, but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
31.¶ Nether did Ashér cast out the inhabitants of Acchó, nor the inhabitants of Zidón, nor of Abláb, nor of Achzíb, nor of Helbáh, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehób,
32.But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land: for thei did not drive them nout.
33.¶ Nether did Naphtalí drive out the inhabitants of Bethshémesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anáth, but dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land: nevertheles the inhabitants of Beth-shémesh, & of Peth-anáth became tributaries unto them.
34.And the Amorites ^drove the children of Dan into the mountaine: so that thei suffred them not to come downe to the valley.
35.And the Amorites ^dwelt stil in mount Héres in Aijalón, and in Shaalbim, and when the ohand of Josephs familie prevailed, thei became tributaries:
36.And the coast of the Amorites was from Maaleh-akrabbím, even from pSélah and upwarde.

Notes

1-a.
By the judgement of Urim: read Exo. 28.30, Num. 27.21, 1 Sam. 28.6.
1-b.
Who shall be our Captain?
3-c.
For the tribe of Simeon had their inheritance within the tribe of Judah, Josh. 19.1.
5-^.
Or, the lord of Bezek.
6-d.
This was God’s just judgement, as the tyrant himself confessed, that as he had done, so did he receive, Lev. 24.19.
8-e.
Which was afterward built again, and possessed by the Jebusites, 2 Sam. 5.6.
10-*.
Josh. 15.13.
10-f.
These three were giants, and the children of Anak. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
14-g.
Read Josh. 15.18.
16-h.
This was one of the names of Moses father-in-law, read Num. 10.29.
17-*.
Num. 21.3.
18-i.
These cities & others were afterward possessed of the Philistines, 1 Sam. 6.17.
20-*.
Num. 14.24, Josh. 14.13 and 15.14.
21-k.
For after that the tribe of Judah had burnt it, they built it again.
23-G.
en. 28.19.
24-*.
Josh. 2.14
27-*.
Josh. 17.12.
27-l.
Wherefore God permitted the Canaanites to dwell in the land, read Ch. 3.4.
29-*.
Josh. 16.10.
30-m.
That is the tribe of Zebulun, as is also to be understood of the rest.
32-n.
But made them pay tribute as the others did.
34-^.
Or, afflicted them.
35-^.
Or, would dwell.
35-o.
Meaning, when he was stronger than they.
36-p.
Which was a city in Arabia, or, as some read, from the rock.