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Now it came about after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel ^(C1)inquired of the LORD, saying, "Who shall go up first for us ^(C2)against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

The LORD said, "^(C1)Judah shall go up; behold, I have handed the land over to him."

Then Judah said to his brother Simeon, "Go up with me into ^(F1)the territory allotted me, and let's fight the Canaanites; and ^(F2)I in turn will go with you into ^(F3)the territory allotted you." So Simeon went with him.

Judah went up, and ^(C1)the LORD handed over to them the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and they ^(F1)defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.

They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they ^(F1)defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him, and cut off his ^(F1)thumbs and big toes.

And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; ^(C1)as I have done, so God has repaid me." So they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Then the sons of Judah fought against ^(C1)Jerusalem and captured it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Afterward, the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, and in the ^(F1)Negev, and in the lowland.

^(C1)So Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (the name of Hebron was previously Kiriath-arba); and they struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.