Verse 1
Judges 1:1
Bible in Basic English
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Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ מ֣וֹת יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ וַֽ/יִּשְׁאֲלוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בַּ/יהוָ֖ה לֵ/אמֹ֑ר מִ֣י יַעֲלֶה לָּ֧/נוּ אֶל הַֽ/כְּנַעֲנִ֛י בַּ/תְּחִלָּ֖ה לְ/הִלָּ֥חֶם בּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And it was after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, "Who shall go up for us first to fight against the Canaanites?"
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Chapter 1 Context
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Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go...
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And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.
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Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war aga...
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And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they ov...
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And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Peri...
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But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his...
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And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat u...
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Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after the...
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After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country...
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And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba...
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And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was K...
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And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and...
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And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah...
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Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and s...
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And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me sp...
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Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the chil...
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And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it u...
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Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.
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And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to mak...
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And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, dr...
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And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusi...
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And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.
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So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz....
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And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the...
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So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man a...
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And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its nam...
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And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Ta...
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And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out...
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And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on...
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Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went o...
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And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or...
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But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them...
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Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but...
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And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them co...
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For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of...
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And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up.
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