17. Then Judah went out with his brother Simeon, and together they struck the Canaanites who were living at Zephath, and they put them to death. And the name of the city was called Hormah, that is, Anathema.
18. And Judah seized Gaza, with its parts, and Ashkelon as well as Ekron, with their borders.
19. And the Lord was with Judah, and he possessed the mountains. But he was not able to wipe out the inhabitants of the valley. For they abounded with chariots armed with scythes.
20. And just as Moses had said, they gave Hebron to Caleb, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Anak.
21. But the sons of Benjamin did not wipe out the Jebusite inhabitants of Jerusalem. And the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem, even to the present day.
22. The house of Joseph also ascended against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
23. For when they were besieging the city, which was previously called Luz,
24. they saw a man departing from the city, and they said to him, "Reveal to us the entrance to the city, and we will act with mercy toward you."
25. And when he had revealed it to them, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But that man, and all his relatives, they released.
26. And having been sent away, he went out to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city there, and he called it Luz. And so it is called, even to the present day.
27. Likewise, Manasseh did not destroy Bethshean and Taanach, with their villages, nor the inhabitants of Dor and Ibleam and Megiddo, with their villages. And the Canaanite began to live with them.
28. Then, after Israel had grown strong, he made them tributaries, but he was not willing to destroy them.
29. And now Ephraim did not put to death the Canaanite, who was living at Gezer; instead, he lived with him.