1After the death of Joshua the sons of Israel asked the LORD, saying, "Who will go up for us against the Canaanite at the beginning to fight against him?"2The LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.3Judah said to Simeon his brother, Go up with me into my allotted portion, and let us fight against the Canaanite; I also will go with you into your allotted portion. So Simeon went with him.4Judah went up, and the LORD gave the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hand; they struck them at Bezek, ten thousand men.5They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him and struck the Canaanite and the Perizzite.6Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him, seized him, and cut off the thumbs of his hands and the toes of his feet.7Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and the toes of their feet cut off were gathering scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me. They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.8The sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem, captured it, and struck it with the edge of the sword; then they set the city on fire.9Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanite who lived in the hill country, the Negeb, and the Shephelah.10Judah went against the Canaanite who lived in Hebron (the former name of Hebron was Kiriath-arba) and struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.11From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath-sannah).12Caleb said, Whoever strikes Kiriath-sannah and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.13Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it; therefore Caleb gave him Achsah his daughter as a wife.14When she came, she urged him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"15She answered, Give me a blessing, for you have assigned me the land of the Negeb; give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.16The sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah south of Arad; they went and settled among the people.17Judah went with his brother Simeon and struck the Canaanite who lived in Zephath; they devoted the city to destruction and called its name Hormah.18Judah captured Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.19The LORD was with Judah, and Judah took possession of the hill country, but he could not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots.20They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken; and he dispossessed from there the three sons of Anak.21The sons of Benjamin did not dispossess the Jebusite who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.22The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.23The house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz).24The guards saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, Show us the entrance to the city, and we will deal kindly with you.25He showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.26The man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and named it Luz; that is its name to this day.27Manasseh did not dispossess Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the Canaanite was determined to live in that land.28When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanite to forced labor, but they did not completely drive him out.29Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanite who lived in Gezer; the Canaanite continued to live among them in Gezer.30Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol; the Canaanite lived among them and became subject to forced labor.31Asher did not dispossess the inhabitants of Acco, the inhabitants of Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphek, or Rehob.32The Asherites lived among the Canaanites who inhabited the land, because they did not drive them out.33Naphtali did not dispossess the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth-anath; they lived among the Canaanites who inhabited the land, and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became subject to forced labor.34The Amorites pressed the sons of Dan back into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the valley.35The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; the hand of the house of Joseph grew heavy, and they became subject to forced labor.36The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.