Judg 1 | EngLXX | STEP | And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel enquired of theLord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Chananites, to fight against them?

Judges 1

1 And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel enquired of theLord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Chananites, to fight against them? 2 And the Lord said, Judas shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. 3 And Judas said to his brother Symeon, Come up with me into my lot, and let us array ourselvesagainst the Chananites, and I also will go with you into your lot: and Symeon went with him. 4 And Judas went up; and the Lord delivered the Chananite and the Pherezite into their hands,and they struck them in Bezek tothe number of ten thousand men. 5 And they overtook Adonibezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they struck the Chananiteand the Pherezite. 6 And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbsand his great toes. 7 And Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off,gatheredtheir food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they broughthim to Jerusalem, and he died there. 8 And the children of Judas fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck with the edgeof the sword, and they burnt the city with fire. 9 And afterwards the children of Judas went down to fight with the Chananite dwelling inthe hill country, and the south, and the plain country. 10 And Judas went to the Chananite who lived in Chebron; and Chebron came out against him;and the name of Chebron before was Cariatharbocsepher: and they struck Sessi, and Achiman,and Tholmi, children of Enac. 11 And they went up thence to the inhabitants of Dabir; but the name of Dabir was beforeCariathsepher, the city of Letters. 12 And Chaleb said, Whosoever shall strike the city of Letters, and shall first take it,I will give to him Ascha my daughter to wife. 13 And Gothoniel the younger son of Kenez the brother of Chaleb took it; and Chaleb gavehim his daughter Ascha to wife. 14 And it came to pass as she went in, that Gothoniel urged her to ask a field of her father;and she murmured and cried from off her ass, You have sent me forth into a south land: and Chaleb saidto her, What is your request? 15 And Ascha said to him, Give me, I pray you, a blessing, for you have sent me forth intoa south land, and you shall give me the ransom of water: and Chaleb gave her according to her heart theransom of the uppersprings and the ransom of the lowsprings. 16 And the children of Jothor the Kenite the father-in-law of Moses went up from the cityof palm-trees with the children of Judas, to the wilderness that is in the south of Juda, which is atthe descent of Arad, and they lived with the people. 17 And Judas went with Symeon his brother, and struck the Chananite that inhabited Sepheth,and they utterly destroyed them; and they called the name of the city Anathema. 18 But Judas did not inherit Gaza nor her coasts, nor Ascalon nor her coasts, nor Accaronnor her coasts,nor Azotus nor the lands around it. 19 And the Lord was with Judas, and he inherited the mountain; for they were not able todestroy the inhabitants of the valley, for Rechab prevented them. 20 And they gave Chebron to Chaleb, as Moses said; and thence he inherited the three citiesof the children of Enac. 21 But the children of Benjamin did not take the inheritance of the Jebusite who lived inJerusalem; and the Jebusite lived with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day. 22 And the sons of Joseph, they also went up to Baethel; and the Lord was with them. 23 And they encamped and surveyed Baethel: and the name of the city before was Luza. 24 And the spies looked, and behold, a man went out of the city, and they took him; andthey said to him, Show us the way into the city, and we will deal mercifully with you. 25 And he showed them the way into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of thesword; but they let go the man and his family. 26 And the man went into the land of Chettin, and built there a city, and called the nameof it Luza; thisis its name until this day. 27 And Manasse did not drive outthe inhabitants of Baethsan, which is a city of Scythians, nor her towns, nor her suburbs;nor Thanac, nor her towns; nor the inhabitants of Dor, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; nor the inhabitantof Balac, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; nor the inhabitants of Magedo, nor her suburbs, nor her towns;nor the inhabitants of Jeblaam, nor her suburbs, nor her towns; and the Chananite began to dwell in thisland. 28 And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that he made the Chananite tributary, butdid not utterly drive them out. 29 And Ephraim did not drive out the Chananite that lived in Gazer; and the Chananite livedin the midst of him in Gazer, and became tributary. 30 And Zabulon did not drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana:and the Chananite lived in the midst of them, and became tributary to them. 31 And Aser did not drive out the inhabitants of Accho, andthat people became tributary to him, nor the inhabitants of Dor, nor the inhabitants of Sidon,nor the inhabitants of Dalaph, nor Aschazi, nor Chebda, nor Nai, nor Ereo. 32 And Aser lived in the midst of the Chananite who inhabited the land, for he could notdrive him out. 33 And Nephthali did not drive out the inhabitants of Baethsamys, nor the inhabitants ofBaethanach; and Nephthali lived in the midst of the Chananite who inhabited the land: but the inhabitantsof Bethsamys and of Baetheneth became tributary to them. 34 And the Amorite drove out the children of Dan into the mountains, for they did not sufferthem to come down into the valley. 35 And the Amorite began to dwell in the mountain of shells, in whichare bears, and foxes, in Myrsinon, and in Thalabin; and the hand of the house of Joseph washeavy upon the Amorite, and he became tributary to them. 36 And the border of the Amoritewas from the going up of Acrabin, from the rock and upwards.