Judges 1:4-14

⁴The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites and Perizzites, and the Lord handed them over in defeat. They killed ten thousand of the enemy at the town of Bezek.

⁵There they confronted Adoni-bezek and fought with him, defeating the Canaanites and Perizzites.

⁶Adoni-bezek ran away, but they chased after him and captured him, and then cut off his thumbs and big toes.

⁷Adoni-bezek said, “I had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off picking up left-overs from under my table. Now God has paid me back in the same way what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem where he died.

⁸The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and conquered it. They killed the inhabitants with the sword and burned the town down.

⁹After this the men of Judah went to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills of the lowlands.

¹⁰They attacked the Canaanites who lived Hebron (previously known as Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

¹¹From there they went on to attack the people living in Debir (previously known as Kiriath Sepher).

¹²Caleb announced, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to whoever attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”

¹³Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, was the one captured it, so he gave him his daughter Acsah in marriage.

¹⁴When Acsah came to Othniel, she encouraged him to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you want?”