Judges 1:12-36

12Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give my daughter Achsah for a wife.”

13So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger kinsman, captured it. So Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.

14Now it came about when she came to him, she had persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you need?”

15Give me a blessing,” she said. “For you have given me land in the Negev; you should also give me springs of water.” So Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Lower Springs.

16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the children of Judah from the City of Palms to the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev of Arad. They went and settled with the people.

17Then Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath. They utterly destroyed it, and thus the name of the city was called Hormah.

18Also Judah captured Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

19Adonai was with Judah, and he possessed the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots.

20Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised, so he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.

21But the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, so the Jebusites continued to live with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

22Also the house of Joseph marched against Bethel, and Adonai was with them.

23The house of Joseph sent men to spy out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz).

24Now the scouts saw a man coming out from the city and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city and we will deal kindly with you.”

25So 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 free with all his family.

26So the man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and named it Luz, which is its name to this day.

27Manasseh, however, did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages. So the Canaanites resolved to dwell in that land.

28When Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out.

29Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites settled in Gezer among them.

30Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites settled among them, but became subject to forced labor.

31Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Zidon, Achlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik or Rehob;

32so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites who were dwelling in the land, because they did not drive them out.

33Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanites dwelling in the land, though the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.

34But the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not let them come down to the valley.

35Also the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon and in Shaalbim, but when the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, they became forced labor for them.

36So the territory of the Amorites ran from the Ascent of Akrabbim from the Rock and upward.