11 Then He was praying in a certain place; and when He stopped, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, [just] as John taught his disciples.

² And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come. Your will be done [held holy and revered] on earth as it is in heaven.

³ Give us daily our bread [^[a]food for the morrow].

⁴ And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us [who has offended us or done us wrong]. And bring us not into temptation but rescue us from evil.

⁵ And He said to them, Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and will say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves [of bread],

⁶ For a friend of mine who is on a journey has just come, and I have nothing to put before him;

⁷ And he from within will answer, Do not disturb me; the door is now closed, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and supply you [with anything]?

⁸ I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

⁹ So I say to you, Ask and ^[b]keep on asking and it shall be given you; seek and ^[c]keep on seeking and you shall find; knock and ^[d]keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you.

¹⁰ For everyone who asks and ^[e]keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and ^[f]keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and ^[g]keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened.

¹¹ What father among you, if his son asks for ^[h]a loaf of bread, will give him a stone; or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

¹³ If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts ^[i]that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and ^[j]continue to ask Him!

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1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?

² And the Lord said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

³ And Judah [the tribe] said to [the tribe of] Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my allotted territory, so that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your territory. So Simeon went with him.

⁴ Then Judah went up and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they smote 10,000 of them in Bezek.

⁵ And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

⁶ Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

⁷ Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off had to gather their food under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

⁸ And the men of Judah fought against [Jebusite] Jerusalem and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

⁹ Afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the South (the Negeb), and in the lowland.

¹⁰ And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. The name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba. And they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

¹¹ From there [Judah] went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir before was Kiriath-sepher [city of books and scribes].

¹² And Caleb said, Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah, my daughter, as wife.

¹³ And Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah, his daughter, as wife.

¹⁴ And when she came to [Othniel], she got his consent to ask her father for a [sloping] field. And she alighted off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?

¹⁵ And she said to him, Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the South (the Negeb), give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.

¹⁶ And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the Judahites from the City of Palms (Jericho) into the Wilderness of Judah, which lies in the South (the Negeb) near Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

¹⁷ And [the tribe of] Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed it. So the city was called Hormah [destruction].

¹⁸ Also Judah took Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron—each with its territory.

¹⁹ The Lord was with Judah, and [Judah] drove out the inhabitants of the hill country, but he could not drive out those inhabiting the [difficult] valley basin because they had chariots of iron.

²⁰ Hebron was given to Caleb as Moses said, and he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.^(A)

²¹ But the Benjamites did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; the Jebusites dwell with the Benjamites in Jerusalem to this day.

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

²³ And the house of Joseph was sent to spy out Bethel. The name of the city formerly had been Luz.

²⁴ And the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the way into the city and we will show you mercy.

²⁵ When he showed them the entrance to the city, they smote the city with the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

²⁶ And the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

²⁷ Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or of Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their villages, but the Canaanites remained in that land.

²⁸ When Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out.

²⁹ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

³⁰ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them and were put to forced labor.

³¹ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob;

³² But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.

³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

³⁴ The Amorites forced the Danites back into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the plain;

³⁵ The Amorites remained fixed in Mount Heres [mountain of the sun], in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

³⁶ And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock Sela and onward.

2 Now the ^[a]Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And He said, I brought you up from Egypt and have brought you to the land which I swore to give to your fathers, and I said, I will never break My covenant with you;^(B)

² And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; but you shall break down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?

³ So now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

⁴ When the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voice and wept.

⁵ They named that place Bochim [weepers], and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

⁶ And when Joshua had let the people go, the Israelites went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

⁷ And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He did for Israel.

⁸ And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.

⁹ And they buried him within the boundary of his inheritance in Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not know (recognize, understand) the Lord, or even the work which He had done for Israel.

¹¹ And the people of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.

¹² And they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, Who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods of the peoples round about them and bowed down to them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

¹³ And they forsook the Lord and served Baal [the god worshiped by the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth [female deities such as Ashtoreth and Asherah].

¹⁴ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He gave them into the power of plunderers who robbed them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their foes.

¹⁵ Whenever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were bitterly distressed.^(C)

¹⁶ But the Lord raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hands of those who robbed them.

¹⁷ And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not so.

¹⁸ When the Lord raised them up judges, then He was with the judge and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to relent because of their groanings by reason of those who oppressed and vexed them.

¹⁹ But when the judge was dead, they turned back and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, following and serving other gods, and bowing down to them. They did not cease from their practices or their stubborn way.

²⁰ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and He said, Because this people have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and have not listened to My voice,

²¹ I from now on will also not drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

²² That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

²³ So the Lord left those nations, without driving them out at once, nor had He delivered them into Joshua’s power.