Daily Reading

Judges 1:1-3:6

1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
1:2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand.

1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into
my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I
likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with
him.

1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and
the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek
ten thousand men.

1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against
him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught
him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

1:7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their
thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat
under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And
they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

1:8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and
had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and
set the city on fire.

1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight
against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the
south, and in the valley.

1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron:
(now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they
slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir:
and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:

1:12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took

1:14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved
him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off
her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast
given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb
gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went
up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah
into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of
Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.
And the name of the city was called Hormah.

1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon
with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the
inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he
expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the
Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell
with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel:
and the LORD was with them.

1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the
name of the city before was Luz.)

1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and
they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into
the city, and we will shew thee mercy.

1:25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they
smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the
man and all his family.

1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a
city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name
thereof unto this day.

1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of
Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam
and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns:
but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put
the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

1:30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron,
nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among
them, and became tributaries.

1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor
the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of
Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

1:32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of
Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt
among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless
the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became
tributaries unto them.

1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the
mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the
valley:

1:35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and
in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so
that they became tributaries.

1:36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to
Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this
land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed
my voice: why have ye done this?

2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before
you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their
gods shall be a snare unto you.

2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these
words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted
up their voice, and wept.

2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there unto the LORD.

2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of
Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and
all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen
all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died,
being an hundred and ten years old.

2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the
hill Gaash.

2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which
knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for
Israel.

2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and served Baalim:

2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods,
of the gods of the people that were round about them, and
bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them,
and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about,
so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was
against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD
had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered
them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they
went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto
them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did
not so.

2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their
enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed
them and vexed them.

2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers,
in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto
them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their
stubborn way.

2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he
said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant
which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my
voice;

2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them
of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will
keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did
keep it, or not.

2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

3:1 Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might
know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
nothing thereof;

3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in
mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of
Hamath.

3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he
commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
Jebusites:

3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave
their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.



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