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Judges
chapter 1
1
After
the death of Josue the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall
go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?
2 And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have
delivered the land into his hands.
3 And Juda said to Simeon his brother: Come up with me
into my lot, and fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go along with
thee into thy lot. And Simeon went with him.
4 And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the
Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec
ten thousand men.
5 And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought
against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.
6 And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and
took him, and cut off his fingers and toes.
7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings having their
fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table:
as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and
he died there.
8 And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took
it, and put it to the sword, and set the whole city on fire.
9 And afterwards they went down and fought against the
Chanaanite, who dwelt in the mountains, and in the south, and in the plains.
10 And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that
dwelt in Hebron (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai,
and Ahiman, and Tholmai:
11 And departing from thence he went to the inhabitants
of Dabir, the ancient name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that is, the city of
letters.
12 And Caleb said: He that shall take Cariath-Sepher,
and lay it waste, to him will I give my daughter Axa to wife.
13 And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother
of Caleb, having taken it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.
14 And as she was going on her way her husband
admonished her to ask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her
ass, Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?
15 But she answered: Give me a blessing, for thou hast
given me a dry land: give me also a watery land. So Caleb gave her the upper
and the nether watery ground.
16 And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of
Moses, went up from the city of palms, with the children of Juda into the
wilderness of his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with
him.
17 And Juda went with Simeon his brother, and they
together defeated the Chanaanites that dwelt in Sephaath, and slew them. And
the name of the city was called Horma, that is, Anathema.
18 And Juda took Gaza with its confines, and Ascalon
and Accaron with their confines.
19 And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the
hill country: but was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley,
because they had many chariots armed with scythes.
20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said,
who destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac.
21 But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy the
Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem: and the Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons
of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this present day.
22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and
the Lord was with them.
23 For when they were besieging the city, which before
was called Luza,
24 They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said
to him: Shew us the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
25 And when he had shewn them, they smote the city with
the edge of the sword: but that man and all his kindred they let go:
26 Who being sent away, went into the land of Hethim,
and built there a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.
27 Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac
with their villages, nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo with
their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.
28 But after Israel was grown strong he made them tributaries,
and would not destroy them.
29 Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt
in Gazer, but dwelt with him.
30 Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and
Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributaries.
31 Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho,
and of Sidon, of Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of
Rohob:
32 And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites the
inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them.
33 Nephtali also destroyed not the inhabitants of
Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites the
inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to
him.
34 And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in
the mountain, and gave them not place to go down to the plain:
35 And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of
potsherds, in Aialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy
upon him, and he became tributary to him.
36 And the border of the Amorrhite was from the ascent
of the scorpion, the rock, and the higher places.
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