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THE BOOK

OF

JUDGE S.

B. C. about 1425.

ch. 20. 18.

CHAPTER I.

The acts of Judah and Simeon. 6 Adoni-bezek justly requited. 8 Jerusalem taken. 10 Hebron taken. 11 Othniel hath Achsah to wife for taking of Debir. 16 The Kenites dwell in Judah. 17 Hormah, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron taken. 21 The acts of Benjamin; 22 of the house of Joseph; 30 of Zebulun; 31 of Asher; 33 of Naphtali; 34 and of Dan.

Now after the death of Joshua

it came to pass, that the chila Num. 27. 21. dren of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

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+ Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of their fect.

|| Or, gleaned.

e Lev. 24. 19.

1 Sam. 15. 33.

James 2. 13. f See Josh. 15. 63.

g Josh. 10. 36. & 11. 21. & 15. 13.

|| Or, low country.

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5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great

toes.

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7 And Adoni-bezek 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.

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.

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 Il valley.

10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: now

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13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, 1Caleb's younger brother, took it: 1 ch. 3. 9. and he gave him Achsan his daugnter to wife.

14 m 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?

m Josh. 15. 18, 19.

n Gen. 33. 11.

about 1425.

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. 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 P Deut. 34. 3. south of ¶ Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

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

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

21 a 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.

sessed the mountain.

y Josh. 17. 16, 18.

z Num. 14. 24. Deut. 1. 36. Josh. 14.9, 13. & 15. 13, 14. a See Josh. 15. 63. & 18. 28.

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