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Judges 1:17-23 World English Bible (WEB)

17. Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

18. Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

19. Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

20. They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

21. The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

22. The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

23. The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)