Judges 1:12-35

¹²And Caleb said, I shall give Achsah, my daughter, wife to him that shall smite Kiriathsepher, and shall waste it.

¹³And when Othniel, the son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, had taken it, Caleb gave Achsah, his daughter, wife to him.

¹⁴And her husband stirred her, going in the way, that she should ask of her father a field; and when she had sighed, sitting on the ass, Caleb said to her, What hast thou?

¹⁵And she answered, Give thou a blessing to me, for thou hast given a dry land to me; give thou to me also a moist land with waters. And Caleb gave to her the moist land above, and the moist land beneath.

¹⁶Forsooth the sons of Kenite, the father of Moses’ wife, went up from the city of Palms with the sons of Judah, into the desert of his lot, which desert is at the south of Arad; and they dwelled with him.

¹⁷And Judah went with Simeon, his brother; and they smote altogether Canaanites, that dwelled in Zephath, and they killed him; and the name of that city was called Hormah, that is, cursing, either perfect destroying, for that city was destroyed utterly.

¹⁸And Judah took Gaza with his coasts, and Askelon, and Ekron with his terms.

¹⁹And the Lord was with Judah, and he had in possession the hilly places; and he might not do away the dwellers of the valley, for they were plenteous in iron chariots, full of weapons, sharp as scythes.

²⁰And the sons of Israel gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and Caleb did away from it three sons of Anak.

²¹But the sons of Benjamin did not away Jebusites, the dwellers of Jerusalem; and Jebusites dwelled with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this present day.

²²Also the house of Joseph went up into Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

²³For when they besieged the city, that was called Luz before,

²⁴they saw a man going out of the city, and they said to him, Show thou to us the entering of the city, and we shall do mercy with thee.

²⁵And when he had showed to them, they smote the city by sharpness of sword; and they delivered that man and all his kindred.

²⁶And when he was delivered, he went into the land of Hittites, and builded there a city, and called it Luz; which is called so till into this present day.

²⁷Also Manasseh did not away Beth-shean and Taanach with their towns, and the dwellers of Dor, and Ibleam, and Megiddo, with their towns; and Canaanites began to dwell with them.

²⁸Soothly after that Israel was comforted, he made them tributaries, either to pay tribute, and would not do away them.

²⁹Soothly Ephraim killed not Canaanites that dwelled in Gezer, but dwelled with him.

³⁰Zebulun did not away the dwellers of Kitron, and of Nahalol; but Canaanites dwelled in the midst of him, and was made tributary to him.

³¹Also Asher did not away the dwellers of Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahlab, and of Achzib, and of Helbah, and of Aphik, and of Rehob;

³²and Asher dwelled in the midst of Canaanites, the dwellers of that land, and Asher killed not him.

³³Naphtali did not away the dwellers of Bethshemesh, and of Bethanath; and he dwelled among Canaanites, the dwellers of the land; and Bethshe-mesh and Bethanath were tributaries to him.

³⁴And Amorites held strait the sons of Dan in the hill, and he gave not place to them to go down to the plainer places;

³⁵and he dwelled in the hill of Heres, which is interpreted, Witnessing, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was made heavy, and he was made tributary to him.