Judges 1:21–36

²¹But the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived in Jerusalem among the Benjaminites to this day.^*

²²The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them. ²³The house of Joseph sent out spies to Bethel (the name of the city was formerly Luz).^{* 24}When the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.” ²⁵So he showed them the way into the city, and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.^{* 26}So the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and named it Luz; that is its name to this day.

²⁷Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of^d 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, but the Canaanites continued to live in that land.^{* 28}When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not in fact drive them out.

²⁹And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.^*

³⁰Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol, but 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 Mahalab,^e or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob,^{* 32}but 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; nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

³⁴The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country; they did not allow them to come down to the plain.^{* 35}The Amorites continued to live in Har-heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor. ³⁶The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.^*