A   After the death of Iosua the children of Israel axed the LORDE, and sayde: Who shall go vp ∧ be o&highr; captayne of warre against þe; Cananites? The LORDE sayde: Iuda shall go vp. ^noteBeholde, I haue delyuered the londe in to his hande. Then sayde Iuda vnto his brother Simeon: Go vp &wt; me in to my lot, and let vs fighte against the Cananites, then wyl I go agayne with the in to þi; lot: So Simeon wente with him.

Now whan Iuda wente vp the LORDE delyuered the Cananites and Pheresites in to their h&abar;des, ∧ they slewe t&ebar; thousande m&ebar; at Besek: ∧ they fo&ubar;de Adoni Besek at Besek, ∧ foughte agaynst him, and slewe the Cananites and Pheresites. But Adoni Besek fled, and they folowed after him: and whan they had ouertaken him, they cut of the th&obar;bes of his handes and fete.

B   Then sayde Adoni Besek: Thre score and ten kynges &wt; the thombes of their h&abar;des ∧ fete cut of, gathered vp the meate þt; was lefte vnder my table. ^noteNow as I haue done, so hath God rewarded me agayne. And he was broughte vnto Ierusal&ebar;, where he dyed.

But þe; childr&ebar; of Iuda foughte agaynst Ierusalem, and w&abar;ne it, ^note and smote it with the edge of the swerde, and set fyre vpon the cite. Then wente the children of Israel downe, to fighte agaynst þe; Cananites, þt; dwelt vpon the mount, and towarde the south, and in the valleys. ^noteAnd Iuda wente agaynst the Cananites, which dwelt at Hebron. (As for Hebron, it was called Kiriatharba afore tyme) and they smote Sesai, ∧ Achiman, and Thalmai.

C   And from thence he wente agaynst þe; inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher aforetyme.) And Caleb sayde: ^note He þt; smyteth Kiriath Sepher, ∧ wynneth it, I wyl geue him my doughter Achsa to wife. Then Athniel the sonne of Kenas, Calebs yongest brother w&abar;ne it. And he gaue him his doughter Achsa to wife. And it fortuned þt; whan they w&ebar;te in, she was counceled of hir hou&esset;bande, to axe a pece of londe of hir father. And she fell from the asse. Th&ebar; sayde Caleb vnto her: What ayleth þe;? She sayde: Geue me a blessynge, for thou hast geuen me a south ∧ drye londe, geue me also a watery londe. Then gaue he her a londe that was watery aboue and beneth.

D   And the childr&ebar; of þe; Kenyte Moses brother in lawe, wente vp out of the ^note palme cite, with the children of Iuda in to the wyldernesse of Iuda, that lyeth on þe; south syde of the cite Arad: ^note and wente their waye, ∧ dwelt amonge the people. And Iuda wente with his brother Simeon, ∧ they smote the Cananites at Zephath, ∧ damned them, ∧ called the name of the cite Horma. ^noteIuda also wanne Gasa with the borders therof, ∧ Ascalon with hir borders, ∧ Accaron with the coastes therof. And the LORDE was &wt; Iuda, so that he conquered the mountaynes: but them that dwelt in the valley coulde he not conquere, because they had yron charettes. And acordinge as Moses had sayde, they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, which droue out the thre sonnes of Enak. ^noteHowbeit þe; children of Ben Iamin droue not out þe; Iebusites which dwelt at Ierusalem, but þe; Iebusites dwelt amonge the children of Ben Iamin at Ierusalem vnto this daye.

E    ^noteLikewyse the children of Ioseph w&ebar;te vp also vnto Bethel, ∧ the LORDE was &wt; th&ebar;. And the house of Ioseph spyed out Bethel (which afore tyme was called Lus) and the

watch men sawe a man goinge out of the cite, and saide vnto him: Shewe vs where we maye come in to the cite, ^note ∧ we wyll shewe mercy vpon the. And whan he had shewed them where they mighte come in to the cite, they smote þe; cite &wt; the edge of the swerde: but they let the man go ∧ all his frendes.

Then w&ebar;te the same man vp in to þe; countre of the Hethites, ∧ buylded a cite, and called it Lus, ∧ so is the name of it yet vnto this daye. F   And Manasses ^note droue not out Beth Sean &wt; the vyllages therof, ner Thaenah with the vyllages therof, ner the inhabiters of Dor with the vyllages therof: ner the inbiters of Iebleam &wt; the vyllages therof, ner the inhabiters of Mageddo &wt; the vyllages therof, and þe; Cananites beganne to dwell in the same londe. But whan Israel was mightie, he made the Cananites tributaries, and droue them not out.

^noteIn like maner Ephraim droue not out þe; Cananites that dwelt at Gaser, but the Cananites dwelt amonge them at Gaser.

Zabulon also droue not out the inhabiters of Kitron and Nahalol, but þe; Cananites dwelt amonge them, ∧ were tributaries.

G   Asser droue not out þe; inhabiters of Aco, ∧ þe; inhabiters of Sidon, of Ahelab, of Achsib, of Helba, of Aphik ∧ of Rehob, but þe; Asserites dwelt am&obar;ge the Cananites that dwelt in the l&obar;de, for they droue th&ebar; not out.

Nephtali droue not out þe; inhabiters of Beth Semes, ner of Beth Anath, but dwelt amonge the Cananites which dwelt in the londe: howbeit they of Beth Semes and of Beth Anath were tributaries.

And the Amorites subdued the childr&ebar; of Dan vpon the mountaine, and suffred them not to come downe in to the valley. And the Amorites beganne to dwell vp&obar; mount Heres at Aiolon and at Saalbim. Howbeit þe; hande of þe; house of Ioseph was to sore for them, and they became tributaries. And the border of the Amorites was, as a m&abar; goeth vp towarde Acrabim, and from the rocke, ∧ from the toppe.

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