mSee Num. 10:29-32
Judges 1:4-21
4Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek. 5They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. 7And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off aused to pick up scraps under my table. bAs I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.8 cAnd the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. 9And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in dthe hill country, in the Negeb, and in ethe lowland. 10 fAnd Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron g(now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated hSheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
11From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher. 12And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.” 13And Othniel the son of Kenaz, iCaleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife. 14When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?” 15She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
16And the descendants of the jKenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah kfrom the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near lArad, mand they went and settled with the people. 17 nAnd Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called oHormah. ▼
▼ Hormah means utter destruction
18Judah also qcaptured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. 19 rAnd the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the shill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had tchariots of iron. 20 uAnd Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it vthe three sons of Anak. 21But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, wso the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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