Judges 1:1-3:6
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After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel a inquired of the Lord, b "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"
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The Lord said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."
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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. c And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
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Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.
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They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
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Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
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And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off d used to pick up scraps under my table. e As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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f And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.
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And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in g the hill country, in the Negeb, and in g the lowland.
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h And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron i (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated j Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.
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And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife."
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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, k Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
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When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
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She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
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And the descendants of the l Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah m from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near n Arad, o and they went and settled with the people.
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p And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called q Hormah.
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Judah also r captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
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p And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the s hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had t chariots of iron.
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u And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it v the three sons of Anak.
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But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, w so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, x and the Lord was with them.
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And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( y Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
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And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the way into the city, z and we will deal kindly with you."
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And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
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And the man went to a the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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b Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
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When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.
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c And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
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Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of d Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.
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e Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,
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so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.
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Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of f Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
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g The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.
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The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, h in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.
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And the border of the Amorites ran from i the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
Judges 2
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Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to j Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, k 'I will never break my covenant with you,
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l and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; m you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
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So now I say, n I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become o thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
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As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
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And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.
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p And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years.
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And they buried him within the boundaries of q his inheritance in Timnath-heres, r in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
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And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.
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s And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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t And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. u They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and v bowed down to them. w And they provoked the Lord to anger.
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They abandoned the Lord x and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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y So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he z gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. a And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, b so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, c and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.
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d Then the Lord raised up judges, e who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Yet they did not listen to their judges, for f they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. g They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
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Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, h the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. i For the Lord was moved to pity by j their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
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But k whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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l So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people m has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
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n I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
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in order o to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not."
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So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3
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p Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
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These are the nations: q the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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They were for r the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
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So the people of Israel lived s among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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t And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
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Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
2 Samuel 2:1
After this David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron.
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Judges 20:18
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.
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Judges 1:17
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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Luke 16:21
Who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Leviticus 24:19
If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him.
1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
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Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Joshua 9:1
As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this.
Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
Joshua 11:16
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Joshua 12:8
In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
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Joshua 9:1
As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this.
Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
Joshua 11:16
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Joshua 12:8
In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
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Judges 1:10 - 15
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
Joshua 15:13 - 19
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:13
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Numbers 13:22
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Joshua 15:14
And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 4:11
Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
Judges 4:17
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
1 Samuel 15:6
Then Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
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Numbers 21:1
When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
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Numbers 10:29 - 32
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.
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Judges 1:3
And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
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Numbers 21:3
And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.
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Judges 3:3
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
Joshua 11:22
There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
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Judges 1:17
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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Judges 1:9
And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
Joshua 17:18
But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:36
Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
Joshua 14:9
And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.
Joshua 14:13
Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Joshua 15:13 - 14
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
Joshua 18:13
From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.
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Joshua 2:12
Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign
Joshua 2:14
And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.
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Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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Judges 1:27 - 28
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Joshua 17:11 - 13
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
1 Kings 9:16
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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Joshua 19:15
And Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem - twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua 21:35
Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands - four cities.
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Judges 1:31 - 32
Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob.
Joshua 19:24 - 30
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans.
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Judges 1:33
Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
Joshua 19:32 - 39
The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.
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Joshua 19:47 - 48
When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
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Joshua 19:42
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah.
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Numbers 34:4
And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.
Joshua 15:3
It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka.
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Judges 2:5
And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Exodus 6:4
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
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Judges 2:21
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges 2:7 - 9
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
Joshua 24:29 - 31
After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.
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Joshua 19:50
By command of the Lord they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Judges 4:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
Judges 6:1
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you -
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Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
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Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Psalms 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
1 Samuel 7:4
So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
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Judges 2:20
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice.
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2 Kings 17:20
And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
Judges 4:2
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?
1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Leviticus 26:37
They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Joshua 7:12 - 13
Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
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Leviticus 26:14 - 46
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
1 Samuel 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
Acts 13:20
All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who kil...
Judges 10:1
After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola...
Judges 10:12 - 13
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the ...
Judges 12:2 - 3
And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had...
Judges 13:5
For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. ...
Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the ...
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their ...
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Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy 9:12
Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.
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Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Genesis 6:6
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on ...
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have...
Psalms 106:45
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and ...
Jeremiah 18:8
And if that nation, concerning which I have spo...
Jeremiah 26:3
It may be they will listen, and every one turn ...
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of...
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Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 6:5
Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
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Judges 3:12
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
Judges 4:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
Judges 6:1
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
Joshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.
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Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, t...
Judges 3:4
They were for the testing of Israel, to know wh...
Exodus 15:25
And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed h...
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember the whole way that the L...
Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that y...
Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that proph...
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Judges 3:4
They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges 2:21 - 22
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Joshua 13:2 - 6
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Psalms 106:35
But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
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Exodus 34:16
And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Deuteronomy 7:3
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
Ezra 9:12
Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.
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