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Judges 1:1
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It happened after the death of Yehoshua, the children of Yisra'el asked of the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Kena`anim, to fight against them?
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Judges 1:2
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The LORD said, Yehudah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
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Judges 1:3
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Yehudah said to Shim`on his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Kena`anim; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Shim`on went with him.
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Judges 1:4
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Yehudah went up; and the LORD delivered the Kena`anim and the Perizzi into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
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Judges 1:5
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They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Kena`anim and the Perizzi.
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Judges 1:6
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But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
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Judges 1:7
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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 Yerushalayim, and he died there.
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Judges 1:8
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The children of Yehudah fought against Yerushalayim, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
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Judges 1:9
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Afterward the children of Yehudah went down to fight against the Kena`anim who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
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Judges 1:10
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Yehudah went against the Kena`anim who lived in Chevron (now the name of Chevron before was Kiryat-Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai.
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Judges 1:11
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From there he went against the inhabitants of Devir. (Now the name of Devir before was Kiryat Sepher.)
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Judges 1:12
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Kalev said, He who strikes Kiryat Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give `Akhsah my daughter as wife.
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Judges 1:13
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`Otni'el the son of Kenaz, Kalev's younger brother, took it: and he gave him `Akhsah his daughter as wife.
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Judges 1:14
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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 Kalev said to her, What would you?
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Judges 1:15
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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. Kalev gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
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Judges 1:16
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The children of the Keni, Moshe' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Yehudah into the wilderness of Yehudah, which is in the south of `Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
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Judges 1:17
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Yehudah went with Shim`on his brother, and they struck the Kena`anim who inhabited Tzefat, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Chormah.
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Judges 1:18
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Also Yehudah took `Aza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and `Ekron with the border of it.
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Judges 1:19
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The LORD was with Yehudah; 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.
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Judges 1:20
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They gave Chevron to Kalev, as Moshe had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of `Anak.
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Judges 1:21
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The children of Binyamin did not drive out the Yevusi who inhabited Yerushalayim; but the Yevusi dwell with the children of Binyamin in Yerushalayim to this day.
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Judges 1:22
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The house of Yosef, they also went up against Beit-El; and the LORD was with them.
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Judges 1:23
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The house of Yosef sent to spy out Beit-El. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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Judges 1:24
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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.
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Judges 1:25
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He shown 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.
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Judges 1:26
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The man went into the land of the Chitti, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.
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Judges 1:27
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Menasheh did not drive out [the inhabitants of] Beth Shean and its towns, nor [of] Ta`nakh and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Yivle`am and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Kena`anim would dwell in that land.
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Judges 1:28
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It happened, when Yisra'el had grown strong, that they put the Kena`anim to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
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Judges 1:29
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Efrayim didn't drive out the Kena`anim who lived in Gezer; but the Kena`anim lived in Gezer among them.
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Judges 1:30
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Zevulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Kena`anim lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
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Judges 1:31
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Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of `Akko, nor the inhabitants of Tzidon, nor of Achlav, nor of Akhziv, nor of Chelbah, nor of Afik, nor of Rechov;
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Judges 1:32
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but the Asheri lived among the Kena`anim, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
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Judges 1:33
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Naftali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beit-`Anat; but he lived among the Kena`anim, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beit-`Anat became subject to forced labor.
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Judges 1:34
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The Amori forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
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Judges 1:35
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but the Amori would dwell in Mount Cheres, in Ayalon, and in Sha`alvim: yet the hand of the house of Yosef prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
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Judges 1:36
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The border of the Amori was from the ascent of `Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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