May
22
Judges
1, 2
Jdg
1:1 It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel
asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the
Canaanites, to fight against them?
Jdg
1:2 Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the
land into his hand.
Jdg
1:3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot,
that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with
you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.
Jdg
1:4 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the
Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten
thousand men.
Jdg
1:5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him,
and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Jdg
1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught
him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Jdg
1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and
their great toes cut off, gathered their
food under my table: as I have done, so
God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died
there.
Jdg
1:8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and
struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Jdg
1:9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the
Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in
the lowland.
Jdg
1:10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the
name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai.
Jdg
1:11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the
name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.)
Jdg
1:12 Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him
will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
Jdg
1:13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and
he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Jdg
1:14 It happened, when she came to him,
that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted
from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What would you like?
Jdg
1:15 She said to him, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me
in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. Caleb gave
her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Jdg
1:16 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out
of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the
wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and
lived with the people.
Jdg
1:17 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the
Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name
of the city was called Hormah.
Jdg
1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its
border, and Ekron with its border.
Jdg
1:19 Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the
inhabitants of the hill country; for he
could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had
chariots of iron.
Jdg
1:20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove
out there the three sons of Anak.
Jdg
1:21 The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who
inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Jdg
1:22 The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and
Yahweh was with them.
Jdg
1:23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of
the city before was Luz.)
Jdg
1:24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they
said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we
will deal kindly with you.
Jdg
1:25 He showed them the entrance into the city; and they struck the
city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his
family.
Jdg
1:26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city,
and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
Jdg
1:27 Manasseh did not drive out the
inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns,
nor of
Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor
the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Jdg
1:28 It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the
Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
Jdg
1:29 Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but
the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
Jdg
1:30 Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the
inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and
became subject to forced labor.
Jdg
1:31 Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the
inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor
of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
Jdg
1:32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants
of the land; for they did not drive them out.
Jdg
1:33 Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor
the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh
and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
Jdg
1:34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country;
for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
Jdg
1:35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in
Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they
became subject to forced labor.
Jdg
1:36 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim,
from the rock, and upward.
Jdg
2:1 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I
made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land
which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my
covenant with you:
Jdg
2:2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this
land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to
my voice: why have you done this?
Jdg
2:3 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before
you; but they shall be as thorns
in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Jdg
2:4 It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all
the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and
wept.
Jdg
2:5 They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed
there to Yahweh.
Jdg
2:6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel
went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
Jdg
2:7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
Jdg
2:8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one
hundred ten years old.
Jdg
2:9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath
Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain
of Gaash.
Jdg
2:10 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and
there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh,
nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
Jdg
2:11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of
Yahweh, and served the Baals;
Jdg
2:12 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought
them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods
of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to
them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
Jdg
2:13 They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Jdg
2:14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he
sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they
could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Jdg
2:15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for
evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they
were sore distressed.
Jdg
2:16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of
those who despoiled them.
Jdg
2:17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the
prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they
turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked,
obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but
they didn't do so.
Jdg
2:18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the
judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days
of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by
reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
Jdg
2:19 But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned
back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other
gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from
their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Jdg
2:20 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said,
Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded
their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
Jdg
2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of
the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Jdg
2:22 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way
of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Jdg
2:23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily;
neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.