1 After Joshua died, God’s people asked God, “Who will go first to fight?” 2 God said Judah will go first. God will help Judah win. ✋️ 3 Judah said to his brother Simeon, “Come help me. I will help you too.” Simeon went. 4 Judah and Simeon fought the bad men. God helped them win a lot. ⚔️ 5 They found a king named Adoni-bezek. They fought him and won. ⚔️ 6 The king ran away. They caught him and hurt his thumbs and big toes. ♂️✋ 7 The king said, “I did this to many kings. Now it is done to me. God paid me back.” They took him to Jerusalem. He died. ️➡️️✝️ 8 Judah fought the city of Jerusalem. They won and set the city on fire. ️ 9 Then they went to the hills, the dry land, and the flat land. They fought the people there. ⛰️⚔️ 10 They went to Hebron. They beat three big men there. ️ 11 Then they went to a town named Debir. ️➡️ 12 Caleb said, “Who takes this town can marry my daughter Achsah.” ️ 13 A man named Othniel took the town. He married Achsah. 14 Achsah asked for land. She got off her donkey. Caleb, her dad, said, “What do you want?” ️ 15 Achsah said, “Please give me water too.” Caleb gave her two springs. 16 The Kenite family, who knew Moses, went with Judah to the dry land near Arad, by the City of Palms. They lived there. ️ 17 Judah and Simeon beat a town named Zephath. They broke the town. Now it is called Hormah. ️➡️️Hormah 18 Judah took three towns: Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron. ️️️ 19 God was with Judah. They won in the hills. They could not win in the flat land, because the other men had big iron carts. ⛰️✅ ❌ 20 Caleb got Hebron, like Moses said. He chased out three big men. ️➡️ 21 The tribe of Benjamin did not push out the people in Jerusalem. So they still lived there together. ️↔️ 22 The family of Joseph went to fight Bethel. God helped them. ️️ 23 They sent men to look at the town. It was called Luz before. ️ 24 The men saw one man come out. They said, “Show us the way in. We will be kind to you.” ️ 25 The man showed them the way. They won the town, but they let the man and his family live. 26 The man went to the land of the Hittites. He built a new town and named it Luz. ️️ 27 The tribe Manasseh did not push out many towns. The people there stayed. ️↔️ 28 Later, Israel got strong. They made those people work. They did not push them out. 29 The tribe Ephraim did not push out the people in Gezer. They lived together. ️ 30 The tribe Zebulun did not push out two towns. The people stayed and had to work. ️ 31 The tribe Asher did not push out many towns. ️↔️ 32 So Asher lived with the people of the land. 33 The tribe Naphtali did not push out two towns. They lived with them. The people had to work. ️ 34 The Amorites pushed the tribe Dan into the hills. They would not let Dan go to the flat land. ⛰️⬆️ 35 The Amorites stayed in three towns. Later, Joseph’s family got strong and made them work. ️➡️ 36 The Amorite land went from a place named Akrabbim to a rock place named Sela. ️