1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD (YHWH), saying: "Who will go first to fight against the Canaanites for us?"
Judges 1:1 Cross References - VIN
Exodus 28:30
30 You will put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastplate of judgment, and they will come to be on Aaron's heart when he enters before the LORD. Thus Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the LORD continually.
Numbers 27:21
21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before LORD. At his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the sons of Israel with him, even
Joshua 24:29-30
Judges 1:27
27 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements; the Canaanites continued to dwell in that land.
Judges 3:1-6
1 Now these are the nations that the LORD left to test the Israelites who had not known all the wars of Canaan.
2 He did this to teach warfare to the generations of the children of Israel who had not had previous battle experience.
3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath.
4 They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD's commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites,
6 They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Judges 20:18
18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and asked counsel of God. They said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? the LORD said, Judah first.
Judges 20:28
28 and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron ministered before it), Shall we yet again go out to fight against Benjamin our brother, or not? the LORD said, Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.