Douay Rheims Original ↷
Judges 1 📜 📕 ↷
Conquest of Canaan Proceeds
1 AFTER the death of Josue the children of Israel consulted our Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, & shall be captain of the war?📜💬📚
2 And our Lord said: Judas shall go up: behold I have delivered the Land into his hands.📜💬📚
3 And Judas said to Simeon his brother: Come up with me into my lot, and fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go forward with thee into thy lot. And Simeon went with him.📜💬📚
4 And Judas went up and our Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they struck in Bezec ten thousand men.📜💬📚
5 And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and struck the Chanaanite and the Pherezite.📜💬📚
6 And Adonibezec fled: whom pursuing they took, cutting off the extreme parts of his hands and feet.📜💬📚
7 And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings having the extreme parts of their hands and feet cut off, gathered up the relics of meats under my table: as I have done, so hath God repaid me. And they brought him into Jerusalem, and there he died.📜💬📚
Capture of Jerusalem and Hebron
8 Therefore the children of Judas assaulting Jerusalem, took it, and struck it in the edge of the sword, setting the whole city on fire.📜💬📚
9 And afterward going down they fought against the Chanaanite, which dwelled in the mountains, and southward, & in the champion countries.📜💬📚
10 And Judas going forward, against the Chanaanite, that dwelled in Hebron (the name whereof was before time Cariatharbe) struck Sesai, and Ahiman, and Tholmai:📜💬📚
11 and departing thence went to the inhabitants of Dabir, the old name whereof was Cariath Sepher, that is a city of letters.📜💬📚
12 And Caleb said: He that shall strike Cariath Sepher, and spoil it, I will give him Axa my daughter to wife.📜💬📚
13 And when Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb had taken it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.📜💬📚
14 Whom going on her way her husband admonished to ask a field of her father. To whom, when she had sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb said: What aileth thee?📜💬📚
15 But she answered. Give me a blessing, for a dry land thou hast given me: give me also a watery. Caleb therefore gave her a watery ground above, and watery beneath.📜💬📚
16 And the children of the Cinite the cousin of Moyses went up from the city of palms, with the children of Judas into the desert of his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, & dwelt with him.📜💬📚
17 But Judas went with Simeon his brother, & together they struck the Chanaanite that dwelt in Sephaath, and slew him. And the name of the city was called, Horma, that is, Anathema.📜💬📚
18 And Judas took Gaza with the coasts thereof, & Ascalon, & Accaron with their bounds.📜💬📚
19 And our Lord was with Judas, & he possessed the mountains: neither could he destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they had many hooked chariots.📜💬📚
20 And they gave to Caleb Hebron, as Moyses had said, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac.📜💬📚
21 But the Jebusite the inhabiter of Jerusalem the children of Benjamin destroyed not: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this present day.📜💬📚
22 The house also of Joseph went up into Bethel, and our Lord was with them.📜💬📚
23 For when they besieged the city, which before was called Luza,📜💬📚
24 they saw a man coming out of the city, and said to him: Shew us the entrance of the city, and we will shew thee mercy.📜💬📚
25 Who when he had shewed them, they struck the city in the edge of the sword: but that man, & all his kindred they dismissed.📜💬📚
26 Who being dismissed, went into the Land of the Hetthims, & built there a city, & called it Luza: which is so called until this present day.📜💬📚
Failure to Complete the Conquest
27 Manasses also destroyed not Bethsan, and Thanac with their little towns, and the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo with their little towns. And the chananite began to dwell with them.📜💬📚
28 But after that Israel was waxen strong he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them.📜💬📚
29 Ephraim also killed not the Chanaanite, that dwelt in Gazer, but dwelt with him.📜💬📚
30 Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of him, & was made tributary to him.📜💬📚
31 Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, & of Sidon, of Ahalab, and Achazib, & Helba, & Aphec, & Rohob:📜💬📚
32 and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite the inhabiter of that Land, neither did he kill them.📜💬📚
33 Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, & Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite the inhabiter of the Land, and the Bethsamites & Bethanites were tributaries to him.📜💬📚
34 And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not place to go down to the plain:📜💬📚
35 and he dwelt in the mount Hares which is interpreted shells, in Aialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was aggravated, and he became tributary to him.📜💬📚
36 And the border of the Amorrhite was from the Ascent of the Scorpion, the rock, and the higher places.📜💬📚
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