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Judges Chapter 1

Judges
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Judges

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The Israelites, still living under Egyptian oppression, take refuge in a cave near Shechem where God sends an angel to tell them to go to the mountain of the LORD and receive a blessing. This chapter opens the cycle of divine rescue and establishes the theme of God’s promise of future deliverance.

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(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?
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Joshua 24:29Joshua 24:30Judges 20:18Judges 20:28Exodus 28:30Numbers 27:21I Samuel 22:9I Samuel 22:10I Samuel 23:9I Samuel 23:10

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11

(2) And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
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Genesis 49:8Genesis 49:9Genesis 49:10Numbers 2:3Numbers 7:12Psalms 78:68Psalms 78:69Psalms 78:70Hebrews 7:14Revelation 5:5Revelation 19:11Revelation 19:12

(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.
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Genesis 29:33Joshua 19:1Judges 1:17II Samuel 10:11

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Joshua 19:1Joshua 21:4Genesis 13:11Genesis 19:1Genesis 19:29Leviticus 16:8

(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.
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Exodus 23:28Exodus 23:29Deuteronomy 7:2Deuteronomy 9:3Joshua 10:8Joshua 10:9Joshua 10:10Joshua 11:6Joshua 11:7Joshua 11:8I Samuel 14:6I Samuel 14:10

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Judges 1:5Luke 19:13Joshua 24:11

(5) And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
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Judges 1:4Joshua 24:11

(6) But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
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Judges 1:7

(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.
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Exodus 21:23Exodus 21:24Exodus 21:25Leviticus 24:19Leviticus 24:20Leviticus 24:21I Samuel 15:33Isaiah 33:1Matthew 7:1Matthew 7:2Luke 6:37Luke 6:38

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Numbers 11:32Exodus 16:18Numbers 27:3Deuteronomy 32:50Genesis 45:23II Kings 16:15

(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.
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Judges 1:21Joshua 15:63

(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.
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Joshua 10:36Joshua 11:21Joshua 15:13Joshua 15:14Joshua 15:15Joshua 15:16Joshua 15:17Joshua 15:18Joshua 15:19Joshua 15:20

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Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16Judges 1:29Joshua 11:16Genesis 19:30Numbers 14:25

(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.
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Joshua 14:15Judges 1:20Numbers 13:22Numbers 13:33Joshua 15:13Joshua 15:14Psalms 33:16Psalms 33:17Ecclesiastes 9:11Jeremiah 9:23

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Numbers 13:22II Samuel 4:12Judges 1:29II Samuel 5:3I Chronicles 11:3Genesis 13:18

(11) And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
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Joshua 10:38Joshua 10:39Joshua 15:15

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Joshua 15:15Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33

(12) And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
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Joshua 15:16Joshua 15:17I Samuel 17:25I Samuel 18:23

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Joshua 15:16Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Joshua 15:17I Chronicles 2:49

(13) And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
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Judges 3:9

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Judges 3:9Joshua 15:17Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17I Chronicles 4:13

(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?
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Joshua 15:18Joshua 15:19

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Joshua 15:18Numbers 22:23II Kings 8:12Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(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.
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Genesis 33:11I Samuel 25:18I Samuel 25:27II Corinthians 9:5Hebrews 6:7I Peter 3:9

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Joshua 15:19Joshua 10:40Joshua 12:8I Samuel 27:10I Samuel 30:14Ezekiel 20:46

(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.
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Judges 4:11Judges 4:17Numbers 10:29Numbers 10:30Numbers 10:31Numbers 10:32Numbers 24:21Numbers 24:22I Samuel 15:6I Chronicles 2:15Jeremiah 35:2Exodus 3:1

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Leviticus 23:40I Kings 6:32Deuteronomy 34:3II Chronicles 2:8Ezekiel 41:18Numbers 21:1

(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.
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II Chronicles 14:10Numbers 14:45Numbers 21:3Joshua 19:4

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Numbers 21:3Genesis 34:30Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 4:26I Samuel 15:9Judges 1:3

(18) Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
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Judges 3:3Judges 16:1Judges 16:2Judges 16:21Exodus 23:31Joshua 11:22Joshua 13:3Joshua 15:45Joshua 15:46Joshua 15:47I Samuel 6:17

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Joshua 19:29Numbers 34:3Joshua 15:4Joshua 15:12Joshua 16:3Joshua 17:9

(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.
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Judges 1:2Judges 6:12Judges 6:13Genesis 39:2Genesis 39:21Joshua 1:5Joshua 1:9Joshua 14:12II Samuel 5:10II Kings 18:7Psalms 46:7Psalms 46:11

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Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Joshua 17:11Judges 1:30Judges 1:31Joshua 17:16

(20) And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
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Numbers 14:24Deuteronomy 1:36Joshua 14:9Joshua 14:10Joshua 14:11Joshua 14:12Joshua 14:13Joshua 14:14Joshua 15:13Joshua 15:14Joshua 21:11Joshua 21:12

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Joshua 15:14Numbers 13:22Joshua 15:13

(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.
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Judges 19:10Judges 19:11Judges 19:12Joshua 15:63Joshua 18:11Joshua 18:12Joshua 18:13Joshua 18:14Joshua 18:15Joshua 18:16Joshua 18:17Joshua 18:18

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Joshua 15:63Numbers 2:22II Samuel 3:19II Samuel 4:2Joshua 3:10

(22) And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.
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Numbers 1:10Numbers 1:32Joshua 14:4Joshua 16:1Joshua 16:2Joshua 16:3Joshua 16:4I Chronicles 7:29Revelation 7:8Judges 1:19Genesis 49:24II Kings 18:7

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Genesis 37:28

(23) And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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Judges 18:2Joshua 2:1Joshua 7:2Genesis 28:19Genesis 35:6Genesis 48:3

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Joshua 18:13Genesis 37:28

(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.
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Joshua 2:12Joshua 2:13Joshua 2:14I Samuel 30:15

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Exodus 33:19II Samuel 22:26II Samuel 22:27Psalms 18:25Psalms 18:26Isaiah 41:22

(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.
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Joshua 6:22Joshua 6:23Joshua 6:24Joshua 6:25

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27Joshua 8:24I Samuel 22:19Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15

(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.
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II Kings 7:6II Chronicles 1:17

(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.
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Joshua 17:11Joshua 17:12Joshua 17:13Judges 5:19Joshua 21:25Exodus 23:32Deuteronomy 7:2I Samuel 15:9Psalms 106:34Psalms 106:35Jeremiah 48:10

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Joshua 17:11I Chronicles 7:29I Chronicles 7:28Judges 1:33II Chronicles 13:19Judges 1:30

(28) And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
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Joshua 17:13Joshua 16:10Joshua 17:18Judges 1:29Exodus 6:1Isaiah 28:7

(29) Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
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Joshua 16:10I Kings 9:16

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Joshua 16:10I Kings 9:16Judges 1:30Judges 1:32Judges 1:33Genesis 19:30

(30) Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
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Joshua 19:15

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Judges 1:33Judges 1:27Joshua 17:11Judges 1:29Judges 1:32Judges 1:19

(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:
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Joshua 19:24Joshua 19:25Joshua 19:26Joshua 19:27Joshua 19:28Joshua 19:29Joshua 19:30

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Judges 1:19Judges 1:30I Chronicles 8:13

(32) But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
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Psalms 106:34Psalms 106:35

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(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.
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Joshua 19:32Joshua 19:33Joshua 19:34Joshua 19:35Joshua 19:36Joshua 19:37Joshua 19:38Judges 1:30Judges 1:35Psalms 18:24

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(34) And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
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Judges 18:1Joshua 19:47

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(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.
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Judges 12:12Joshua 10:12Joshua 19:42I Kings 4:9

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(36) And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
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Numbers 34:4Joshua 15:2

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