Judges 1:3–20

3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Go up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Canaanites; then I too will go with you into your allotment.” And Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanitesc and the Perizzitesd into their hand, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek. 5 At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanitese and the Perizzites.f 6 And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off ⌊his thumbs and big toes⌋.g 7 Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with ⌊their thumbs and big toes⌋h cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8 The descendantsi of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, ⌊put it to the sword⌋,j and ⌊set the city on fire⌋.k 9 Afterward the descendantsl of Judah pursued to fight against the Canaanitesm who were living in the hill country, the Negev,n and the Shephelah.o 10 And Judah went against the Canaanitesp living in Hebron (the former name of Hebron was Kiriath Arba). And they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

11 And from there they went to the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath Sepher). 12 And Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife.” 13 Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife. 14 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, “⌊What do you want⌋?”q 15 And she said to him, “Give me ⌊a gift⌋;r you have given me the land of the Negev,s and give me also a spring of water.” And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring.t

16 The descendantsu of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the descendantsv of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negevw near Arad. And they wentx and settled with the people. 17 And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanitesy inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah. 18 Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory. 19 And Yahweh was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb just as Moses said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak from there.