6. Bezek tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes,
7. and he said, “I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back.”The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died.
8. They attacked Jerusalem, captured it, killed everyone who lived there, and then burnt it to the ground.
9. Judah's army fought the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, the Southern Desert, and the foothills to the west.
31-32. The Asher tribe did not get rid of the Canaanites who lived in Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob, and the Asher tribe lived with Canaanites all around them.
33. The Naphtali tribe did not get rid of the Canaanites who lived in Beth-Shemesh and Beth-Anath, but they did force the Canaanites into slave labour. The Naphtali tribe lived with Canaanites around them.
34. The Amorites were strong enough to keep the tribe of Dan from settling in the valleys, so Dan had to stay in the hill country.
35. The Amorites on Mount Heres and in Aijalon and Shaalbim were also determined to stay. Later on, as Ephraim and Manasseh grew more powerful, they forced those Amorites into slave labour.
36. The old Amorite-Edomite border used to go from Sela through Scorpion Pass into the hill country.