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Judges 1:16-25 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

16. And the sons of the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, have gone up out of the city of palms with the sons of Judah [to] the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in the south of Arad, and they go and dwell with the people.

17. And Judah goeth with Simeon his brother, and they smite the Canaanite inhabiting Zephath, and devote it; and [one] calleth the name of the city Hormah.

18. And Judah captureth Gaza and its border, and Askelon and its border, and Ekron and its border;

19. and Jehovah is with Judah, and he occupieth the hill-country, but not to dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, for they have chariots of iron.

20. And they give to Caleb Hebron, as Moses hath spoken, and he dispossesseth thence the three sons of Anak.

21. And the Jebusite, inhabiting Jerusalem, the sons of Benjamin have not dispossessed; and the Jebusite dwelleth with the sons of Benjamin, in Jerusalem, till this day.

22. And the house of Joseph go up--even they--to Beth-El, and Jehovah [is] with them;

23. and the house of Joseph cause [men] to spy about Beth-El (and the name of the city formerly is Luz),

24. and the watchers see a man coming out from the city, and say to him, `Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance of the city, and we have done with thee kindness.'

25. And he sheweth them the entrance of the city, and they smite the city by the mouth of the sword, and the man and all his family they have sent away;

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