Judges 1:21–36

^21aBut the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the ^bJebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

²²Likewise the house of Joseph went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

²³The house of Joseph spied out Bethel (^anow the name of the city was formerly Luz).

²⁴The spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city and ^awe will treat you kindly.”

²⁵So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, ^abut they let the man and all his family go free.

²⁶The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and named it Luz ¹which is its name to this day.

Places Not Conquered

^27aBut Manasseh did not take possession 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 ^bthe Canaanites persisted in living in that land.

²⁸It came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

^29aEphraim did not drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer; so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

³⁰Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and became subject to forced labor.

³¹Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob.

³²So the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

³³Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.

³⁴Then the Amorites ¹forced the sons of Dan into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the valley;

³⁵yet the Amorites persisted in ¹living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon and in Shaalbim; but when the ²power of the house of Joseph ³grew strong, they became forced labor.

³⁶The border of the Amorites ran from the ^aascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.