1 Depois da morte de Josué consultaram os filhos de Israel a Jeová, dizendo: Quem dentre nós subirá primeiro aos cananeus, para pelejar contra eles?
2 Respondeu Jeová: Subirá Judá; eis que lhe entreguei a terra na sua mão.
3 Então disse Judá a Simeão, seu irmão: Sobe comigo à minha sorte, e pelejemos contra os cananeus, que eu também subirei contigo à tua sorte. Simeão foi com ele.
4 Subiu Judá, e Jeová lhes entregou nas mãos os cananeus e os ferezeus: feriram deles em Bezeque dez mil homens.
5 Acharam em Bezeque a Adoni-Bezeque; pelejaram contra ele, e feriram aos cananeus e aos ferezeus.
6 Fugiu Adoni-Bezeque; mas, perseguindo-o, prenderam-no, e cortaram-lhe os dedos polegares das mãos e dos pés.
7 Disse Adoni-Bezeque: Setenta reis, a quem haviam sido cortados os dedos polegares das mãos e dos pés, apanhavam as migalhas debaixo da minha mesa: assim como eu fiz, assim Deus me retribuiu. Levaram-no a Jerusalém, e ali morreu.
8 Os filhos de Judá, pelejando contra Jerusalém, tomaram-na, e passaram-na ao fio da espada, pondo fogo à cidade.
9 Depois os filhos de Judá desceram a pelejar contra os cananeus, que habitavam na região montanhosa, no Neguebe e na Sefelá.
10 Judá marchou contra os cananeus que moravam em Hebrom (ora o nome de Hebrom era dantes Quiriate-Arba); e feriu a Sesai, Aimã e Talmai.
11 Dali partiu contra os habitantes de Debir (ora o nome de Debir era dantes Quiriate-Sefer).
12 Disse Calebe: Ao homem que ferir a Quiriate Sefer, e a tomar, a esse darei por mulher minha filha Acsa.
13 Tomou-a Otniel, filho de Quenaz, irmão mais moço de Calebe; e este lhe deu por mulher sua filha Acsa.
14 Estando ela em caminho para casa de Otniel, persuadiu-lhe que pedisse ao pai um campo. Ela saltou do seu jumento; Calebe perguntou-lhe: Que é o que tens?
15 Respondeu ela: Dá-me uma bênção; porquanto me estabeleceste na terra do Neguebe, dá-me também fontes de água. Deu-lhe, pois, Calebe as fontes superiores e as fontes inferiores.
16 Os filhos do queneu, sogro de Moisés, subiram da cidade das palmeiras com os filhos de Judá ao deserto de Judá, que está no Neguebe de Arade; foram, e habitaram com o povo da terra.
17 Depois Judá marchou com Simeão, seu irmão, e feriram aos cananeus que habitavam em Zefate, e totalmente a destruíram. O nome da cidade chamava-se Hormá.
18 Também Judá tomou a Gaza, a Ascalom, e a Ecrom com os seus termos.
19 Jeová foi com Judá. Este desapossou os habitantes da região montanhosa; porém não pôde desapossar os habitantes do vale, porque tinham carros de ferro.
20 Como Moisés havia dito, deram Hebrom a Calebe, que dali expulsou os três gigantes.
21 Os filhos de Benjamim não expulsaram os jebeuseus que habitavam em Jerusalém; mas eles ficaram habitando com os filhos de Benjamim em Jerusalém, até o dia de hoje.
22 A casa de José, também eles subiram contra Betel; e Jeová era com eles.
23 A casa de José enviou espias a reconhecer a Betel (ora a cidade antes se chamava Luz).
24 Os vigias viram sair da cidade um homem, e disseram-lhe: Mostra-nos o caminho para entrarmos na cidade, e usaremos de misericórdia contigo.
25 Mostrou-lhes o caminho para entrarem na cidade, a qual foi por eles passada ao fio da espada; porém deixaram ir livre aquele homem com toda a sua família.
26 Então entrou este homem na terra dos heteus, edificou uma cidade e pôs-lhe o nome de Luz, a qual assim se chama até o dia de hoje.
27 Manassés não expulsou os habitantes de Bete-Seã e suas vilas, nem os de Taanaque, de Dor, de Ibleã e de Megido com suas vilas; porém os cananeus resolveram habitar na mesma terra.
28 Quando Israel cobrou forças bastantes, obrigou os cananeus a trabalhos forçados e não os expeliu de todo.
29 Efraim não expulsou os cananeus que habitavam em Gezer, mas estes ficaram habitando ali com ele.
30 Zebulom não expulsou os habitantes de Quitrom, nem os de Naalol; mas os cananeus ficaram habitando entre eles e foram obrigados a trabalhos forçados.
31 Aser não expulsou os habitantes de Aco, nem de Sidom, nem de Alabe, nem de Aczibe, nem de Helba, nem de Afeque, nem de Reobe;
32 mas os aseritas moraram no meio dos cananeus, habitantes da terra, porque não os expulsaram.
33 Naftali não expulsou os habitantes de Bete-Semes, nem os de Bete-Anate; porém morou entre os cananeus, habitantes da terra: todavia os habitantes de Bete-Semes e Bete-Anate foram obrigados a trabalhos forçados.
34 Os amorreus impeliram aaos filhos de Dã até a região montanhosa; porque não lhes permitiram descer ao vale;
35 mas os amorreus resolveram habitar em Heres, em Aijalom e em Saalbim. Contudo a mão da casa de José prevaleceu, de sorte que foram obrigados a trabalhos forçados.
36 O termo dos amorreus foi desde a subida de Acrabim, Sela e dali para cima.
1 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?
2 And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.
3 Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.
4 And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.
5 And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6 But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.
7 And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.
8 Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.
9 After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.
10 And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.
11 And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)
12 And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.
13 And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.
14 Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?
15 And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.
16 Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;
17 And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.
18 Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.
19 And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron.
20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there.
21 And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.
22 And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.
23 So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)
24 And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you.
25 So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe.
26 And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day.
27 And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
28 And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.
29 And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them.
30 Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work.
31 And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out;
32 But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out.
33 Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work.
34 And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;
35 For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.
36 And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up.