Joshua 24:31   (Read all of Joshua 24)

Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.

Joshua 24:32   (Read all of Joshua 24)

And Joseph's bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.

Joshua 24:33   (Read all of Joshua 24)

And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 1:2   (Read all of Judges 1)

The Lord answered, "Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands."

Judges 1:3   (Read all of Judges 1)

The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, "Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours." So the Simeonites went with them.

Judges 1:4   (Read all of Judges 1)

When Judah attacked, the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 1:7   (Read all of Judges 1)

Then Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 1:8   (Read all of Judges 1)

The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.

Judges 1:10   (Read all of Judges 1)

They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.

Judges 1:11   (Read all of Judges 1)

From there they advanced against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).

Judges 1:12   (Read all of Judges 1)

And Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher."

Judges 1:13   (Read all of Judges 1)

Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.

Judges 1:14   (Read all of Judges 1)

One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What can I do for you?"

Judges 1:15   (Read all of Judges 1)

She replied, "Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water." So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.

Judges 1:17   (Read all of Judges 1)

Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.

Judges 1:20   (Read all of Judges 1)

As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak.

Judges 1:23   (Read all of Judges 1)

When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),

Judges 1:24   (Read all of Judges 1)

the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, "Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well."

Judges 1:25   (Read all of Judges 1)

So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family.

Judges 1:27   (Read all of Judges 1)

But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.

Judges 1:28   (Read all of Judges 1)

When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.

Judges 1:30   (Read all of Judges 1)

Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor.

Judges 1:31   (Read all of Judges 1)

Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob.

Judges 1:33   (Read all of Judges 1)

Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.