Biblia the Byble, that is, the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully translated in to Englyshe.

The first Chapter.

[ A] AFter the death of Io∣sua the children of Is∣rael axed the LORDE, and sayde: Who shall go vp & be o^r captay∣ne of warre against y^e Cananites? The LOR¦DE sayde: Iuda shall go vp.* 1.1 Beholde, I haue delyuered the lon∣de in to his hande. Then sayde Iuda vnto his brother Simeon: Go vp w^t me in to my lot, and let vs fighte against the Cananites, then wyl I go agayne with the in to y^e lot: So Simeon wente with him.

Now whan Iuda wente vp the LORDE delyuered the Cananites and Pheresites in to their hādes, & they slewe tē thousande mē at Besek: & they foūde Adoni Besek at Be∣sek, & foughte agaynst him, and slewe the Ca¦nanites and Pheresites. But Adoni Besek fled, and they folowed after him: and whan they had ouertaken him, they cut of the thō¦bes of his handes and fete.

[ B] Then sayde Adoni Besek: Thre score and ten kynges w^t the thombes of their hādes & fete cut of, gathered vp the meate y^t was lef¦te vnder my table. * 1.2 Now as I haue done, so hath God rewarded me agayne. And he was broughte vnto Ierusalē, where he dyed.

But y^e childrē of Iuda foughte agaynst Ierusalem, and wāne it,* 1.3 and smote it with the edge of the swerde, and set fyre vpon the cite. Then wente the children of Israel dow¦ne, to fighte agaynst y^e Cananites, y^t dwelt vpon the mount, and towarde the south, and in the vall•••• 〈…〉〈…〉 Iuda wente agaynst the Cananites, which dwelt at Hebron.* 1.4 (As for Hebron, it was called Kiriatharba afo∣re tyme) and they smote Sesai, & Achiman, and Thalmai.

And from thence he wente agaynst y^e in∣habiters [ C] of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher aforetyme.) And Caleb say¦de:* 1.5 He y^t smyteth Kiriath Sepher, & wyn∣neth it, I wyl geue him my doughter Achsa to wife. Then Athniel the sonne of Kenas, Calebs yongest brother wāne it. And he ga∣ue him his doughter Achsa to wife. And it fortuned y^t whan they wēte in she was coun¦celed of hir houszbande, to axe a pece of lon¦de of hir father. And she fell from the asse. Thē sayde Caleb vnto her: What ayleth y^e? She sayde: Geue me a blessynge, for thou hast geuen me a south & drye londe, geue me also a watery londe. Then gaue he her a lon¦de that was watery aboue and beneth.

And the childrē of y^e Kenyte Moses bro¦ther [ D] in lawe, wente vp out of the * 1.6 palme ci¦te, with the children of Iuda in to the wyl∣dernesse of Iuda, that lyeth on y^e south syde of the cite Arad:* 1.7 and wente their waye, & dwelt amonge the people. And Iuda wente with his brother Simeon, & they smote the Cananites at Zephath, & damned them, & called the name of the cite Horma.* 1.8 * 1.9 Iuda also wanne Gasa with the borders therof, & Ascalon with hir borders, & Accaron with the coastes therof. And the LORDE was w^t Iuda, so that he conquered the mountay∣nes: but them that dwelt in the valley coul∣de he not conquere, because they had yron charettes. And acordinge as Moses had say¦de, they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, which dro∣ue out the thre sonnes of Enak.* 1.10 Howbeit y^e children of Ben Iamin droue not out y^e Ie∣busites which dwelt at Ierusalem,* 1.11 but y^e Ie¦busites dwelt amonge the children of Ben Iamin at Ierusalem vnto this daye.

Likewyse the children of Ioseph wēte vp [ E] also vnto Bethel, & the LORDE was w^t thē.* 1.12 And the house of Ioseph spyed out Bethel (which afore tyme was called Lus) and the

watch men sawe a man goinge out of the ci¦te, and saide vnto him: Shewe vs where we maye come in to the cite, * 1.13 & we wyll shewe mercy vpon the. And whan he had shewed them where they mighte come in to the cite, they smote y^e cite w^t the edge of the swerde: but they let the man go & all his frendes.

Then wēte the same man vp in to y^e coun¦tre of the Hethites, & buylded a cite, and cal¦led it Lus, & so is the name of it yet vnto this daye. And Manasses * 1.14 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not out Beth Sean w^t the vyllages therof, ner Thaenah [ F] with the vyllages therof, n••r the inhabiters of Dor with the vyllages therof: ner the in∣biters of Iebleam w^t the vyllages therof, ner the inhabiters of Mageddo w^t the vyl¦lages therof, and y^e Cananites beganne to dwell in the same londe. But whan Israel was mightie, he made the Cananites tribu∣taries, and droue them not out.

* 1.15In like maner Ephraim droue not out y^e Cananites that dwelt at Gaser, but the Ca∣nanites dwelt amonge them at Gaser.

Zabulon also droue not out the inhabiters of Kitron and Nahalol, but y^e Cananites dwelt amonge them, & were tributaries.

[ G] Asser droue not out y^e inhabiters of Aco, & y^e inhabiters of Sidon, of Ahelab, of Ach¦sib, of Helba, of Aphik & of Rehob, but y^e Asserites dwelt amōge the Cananites that dwelt in the lōde, for they droue thē not out.

Nephtali droue not out y^e inhabiters of Beth Semes, ner of Beth Anath, but dwelt amonge the Cananites which dwelt in the londe: howbeit they of Beth Semes and of Beth Anath were tributaries.

And the Amorites subdued the childrē of Dan vpon the mountaine, and suffred them not to come downe in to the valley. And the Amorites beganne to dwell vpō mount He¦res at Aiolon and at Saalbim. Howbeit y^e hande of y^e house of Ioseph was to sore for them, and they became tributaries. And the border of the Amorites was, as a mā goeth vp towarde Acrabim, and from the rocke, & from the toppe.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 13. a
• * 1.2

  Leu. 24. d Iudic. 15. ••
• * 1.3

  Deu. 20. ••
• * 1.4

  Iosu. 15. d
• * 1.5

  Iosu. 15. d 2. Par. 12. a 1. Re. 17. c
• * 1.6

  Deu. 34. a
• * 1.7

  Nu. 10. d 1. Re. 15. d
• * 1.8

  Num. 21. a
• * 1.9

  Iosu. 15. a
• * 1.10

  Iosu. 14. d
• * 1.11

  Iosu. 15. g
• * 1.12

  Iosu. 16. a
• * 1.13

  Iosu. 2. c
• * 1.14

  Nu. 33 g Iosu. 17. c
• * 1.15

  Iosu. 16. b