1   After that Ioshua was dead, the children of Israel ^note asked þe; Lorde, saying, ^note Who shall goe vp for vs against the Canaanites, to fight first against them?

2   And the Lord said, Iudah shall goe vp: behold, I haue giuen the land into his hande.

3   And Iudah said vnto Simeon his ^note brother, Come vp with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites: and I likewise will goe with thee into thy lot: so Simeon went with him.

4   Then Iudah went vp, and the Lorde deliuered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

Adoni-bezek taken. Achsahs request.

5   And they founde ^note Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and slewe the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.

6   But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and ^note cut off the thumbes of his hands and of his feete.

7   And Adoni-bezek said, Seuentie Kings hauing the thumbes of their hands & of their feete cut off, gathered bread vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath rewarded me. so they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.

8   (Nowe the children of Iudah had fought against Ierusalem, and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sworde, and had set the ^note citie on fire.)

9   ¶2; Afterwarde also the children of Iudah went downe to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountaine, and towarde the South, and in the lowe countrey.

10   And Iudah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron, which Hebron beforetime was called ^note Kiriath-arba: and they slewe ^note Sheshai, and Ahiman and Talmai.

11   And from thence hee went to the inhabitantes of Debir, and the name of Debir in olde time was Kiriath-sepher.

12   And Caleb saide, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, euen to him wil I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.

13   And Othniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother tooke it, to whome hee gaue Achsah his daughter to wife.

14   And when shee came to him, shee mooued him to aske of her father a field, ^note and shee lighted off her asse, and Caleb saide vnto her, What wilt thou?

15   And shee answered him, Giue mee a blessing: for thou hast giuen me a South countrey, giue me also springs of water: and Caleb gaue her the springs aboue and the springs beneath.

16   ¶2; And the childr&ebar; of ^note Keni Moses father in law went vp out of the citie of the palme trees with the children of Iudah, into the wildernesse of Iudah, that lieth in the South of Arad, & went and dwelt among the people.

17   But Iudah went with Simeon his brother, and they slewe the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and vtterly destroied it, and called the name of the citie ^note Hormah.

18   Also Iudah tooke ^note Azzah with the coasts thereof, and Askelon with the coasts thereof, and Ekron with the coastes thereof.

19   And the Lord was with Iudah, and he possessed the mountaines: for he could not driue out the inhabitantes of the valleis, because they had charrets of yron.

20   And they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, as ^note Moses had saide, and hee expelled thence the three sonnes of Anak.

21   But the children of Beniamin did not cast out the Iebusites, that ^note inhabited Ierusalem: therefore the Iebusites dwell with the children of Beniamin in Ierusalem vnto this day.

22   ¶2; They also þt; were of the house of Ioseph, went vp to Beth-el, and the Lord was with them,

23   And the house of Ioseph caused to viewe Beth-el (and the name of the citie beforetime was ^note Luz)

24   And the spies sawe a man come out of the citie, and they saide vnto him, Shewe vs, we praie Canaanites dwel with the Israelites. thee, the way into the citie, ^note and we will shewe thee mercie.

25   And when hee had shewed them the waie into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sworde, but they let the man and all his housholde depart.

26   Then the man went into the lande of the Hittites, and built a citie, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof vnto this daie.

27   ¶2; ^note Neither did Manasseh destroie Bethshean with her townes, nor Taanach with her townes, nor the inhabitantes of Dor with her townes, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam with her townes, neither the inhabitants of Megiddo with her townes: ^note but the Canaanites dwelled still in that lande.

28   Neuerthelesse when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly.

29   ¶2; ^note Likewise Ephraim expelled not the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

30   ¶2; Neither did ^note Zebulun expell the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

31   ¶2; Neither did Asher cast out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob,

32   But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitantes of the lande: for they did not driue them ^note out.

33   ¶2; Neither did Naphtali driue out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande: neuerthelesse the inhabitantes of Beth-shemesh, and of Beth-anath became tributaries vnto them.

34   And the Amorites ^note droue the children of Dan into the mountaine: so that they suffered them not to come downe to the valley.

35   And the Ammonites ^note dwelt still in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, and when the ^note hand of Iosephs familie preuailed, they became tributaries:

36   And the coast of the Amorites was from Maaleh-akrabbim, euen from ^note Selah & vpward.

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