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    Judges 1

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    A man showed attackers how to enter his city, escaped the slaughter, and then built another city called Luz.

    The king beneath the tablevv. 1–21

    After Joshua’s death, Israel asks who shall lead the first assault, and the answer is Judah. Judah brings Simeon along, and the campaign begins briskly: ten thousand fall at Bezek, and Adoni-bezek is captured while fleeing. His punishment is grimly symmetrical, and his own account of seventy mutilated kings gathering scraps beneath his table makes the scene stranger still. Jerusalem burns, Hebron falls, and Caleb’s daughter Acsah secures not merely a field but its water supply—a sensible refinement to any wedding portion. Yet Judah’s success has a boundary: the LORD is with Judah in the hill country, but iron chariots keep the plains.

    A city by the same namevv. 22–26

    The house of Joseph turns to Bethel, sending spies ahead. A man comes out, and the bargain is wonderfully plain: reveal the entrance and receive kind treatment. He does so; the city is put to the sword, while he and his family are released. Then he goes to the land of the Hittites, builds a new city, and calls it Luz. A city has been destroyed, but its name has evidently found the arrangement agreeable.

    The unfinished taking of the landvv. 27–36

    The chapter then changes its tune from victories to settlements that never quite become victories. Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, and Naphtali leave Canaanite populations in place, sometimes making them forced laborers, sometimes living among them. The Danites are pushed into the hill country by the Amorites, who themselves remain determined to occupy their ground; the house of Joseph eventually presses those Amorites into forced labor. The closing border runs from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond, which is a wonderfully brisk ending for a campaign that has left so many inhabitants exactly where they were.

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    1. Judg 1:1After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”

    2. Judg 1:2“Judah shall go up,” answered the LORD. “Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands.”

    3. Judg 1:3Then the men of Judah said to their brothers the Simeonites, “Come up with us to our allotted territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. And we likewise will go with you to your territory.” So the Simeonites went with them.

    4. Judg 1:4When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

    5. Judg 1:5And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites.

    6. Judg 1:6As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

    7. Judg 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

    8. Judg 1:8Then the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.

    9. Judg 1:9Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills.

    10. Judg 1:10Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

    11. Judg 1:11From there they marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher).

    12. Judg 1:12And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

    13. Judg 1:13So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

    14. Judg 1:14One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

    15. Judg 1:15“Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

    16. Judg 1:16Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

    17. Judg 1:17Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

    18. Judg 1:18And Judah also captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron—each with its territory.

    19. Judg 1:19The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.

    20. Judg 1:20Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.

    21. Judg 1:21The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

    22. Judg 1:22The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

    23. Judg 1:23They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

    24. Judg 1:24and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

    25. Judg 1:25So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.

    26. Judg 1:26And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

    27. Judg 1:27At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.

    28. Judg 1:28When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

    29. Judg 1:29Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

    30. Judg 1:30Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.

    31. Judg 1:31Asher failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob.

    32. Judg 1:32So the Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out.

    33. Judg 1:33Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.

    34. Judg 1:34The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

    35. Judg 1:35And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.

    36. Judg 1:36And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

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    • 7Revelation 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
    • 71 Samuel 15:33But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
    • 16Numbers 10:29–32Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
    • 1Judges 20:18The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
    • 1Numbers 27:21He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”
    • 16Judges 4:11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
    • 7Leviticus 24:19–21If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
    • 7Luke 6:37–38Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
    • 7James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
    • 161 Samuel 15:6And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
    • 20Judges 1:10Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
    • 1Judges 20:28and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
    • 2Revelation 5:5Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
    • 7Exodus 21:23–25But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
    • 7Matthew 7:1–2“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
    • 8Joshua 15:63But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.

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