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And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.
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And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
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And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
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There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.
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Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”
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And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”
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And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.
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And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
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After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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Micah and the Levite
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.