1 ¹ After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of Yahweh, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" 1 ² Yahweh said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand." 1 ³ And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him. 1 ⁴ Then Judah went up and Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek. 1 ⁵ They came upon Adoni-bezek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 1 ⁶ Adoni-bezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 1 ⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. - Jerusalem & Hebron taken.  Jdg.1.8-10

1 ⁸ And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. 1 ⁹ And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland. 1 ¹⁰ And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba); and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai. - Othniel takes the city of Debir.  Jdg.1.11-15- Jos.15.13-19 | KNSB Contents | notes

1 ¹¹ From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher. 1 ¹² And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife." 1 ¹³ And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 1 ¹⁴ When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, "What do you wish?" 1 ¹⁵ She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. - Victories of the men of Benjamin & Judah.  Jdg.1.16-21

1 ¹⁶ And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad; and they went and settled with the people. 1 ¹⁷ And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah. 1 ¹⁸ Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. 1 ¹⁹ And Yahweh was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron. 1 ²⁰ And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak. 1 ²¹ But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.