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Judges 1:14-29 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

14. Then it came about when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. Then she alighted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"

15. She said to him, "Give me a blessing, since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water." So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

16. The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

17. Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

18. And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

19. Now the Lord was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots.

20. Then they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had promised; and he drove out from there the three sons of Anak.

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. But 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 the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.

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

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

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