Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Judges 1:36
From the going up to Akrabbim Which was in the southern part of Canaan, Joshua 15:2, from whence it went up toward the north. This is added to show the great power and large extent of this people.
From the going up to Akrabbim Which was in the southern part of Canaan, Joshua 15:2, from whence it went up toward the north. This is added to show the great power and large extent of this people.
Verse Judges 1:36. _AKRABBIM_] Of _scorpions_; probably so called from the number of those animals in that place. _FROM THE ROCK, AND UPWARD._] The Vulgate understand by סלע _sela,_ _a rock_, the cit...
THE GOING UP TO AKRABBIM - See the margin and references; properly “the ascent of scorpions,” with which the whole region abounds. THE ROCK - Petra, the capital of Idumea, so called from the mass of p...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE INTRODUCTION: ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND THE RESULTS 1. Israel's Failure in mingling with the Canaanites CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The question and the answer (Judges 1:1)_ 2. Adon...
JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 2:5. THE CONQUESTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE ISRAELITES IN WESTERN PALESTINE. From this introduction, which is one of the most valuable parts of early Hebrew history, we learn that t...
COAST. border or boundary. Judges 2 gives. summary of events from Judges 3:1; Judges 3:16; Judges 3:31. The period it covers is therefore 1434-1100, i.e. 334 years....
_the border of the Amorites_ The text describes a boundary line; but there was no boundary between the Israelites and the Amorites, i.e. the old Canaanite population, for they occupied the same territ...
AND THE COAST OF THE AMORITES WAS FROM—THE ROCK— By _the rock,_ the Vulgate understands the city of Petra, in the Hebrew סלע _selang,_ which stood upon the confines of Idumaea, and was the capital of...
_Conquest of Other Tribes Judges 1:22-36_ 22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the Lord was with them. 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el (Now the name of...
INTRODUCTORY (JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 3:4) Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5. This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early conquest of Pa
COAST] RV 'border.' The ASCENT OF (RV) AKRABBIM (scorpions) is said in Joshua 15:3 to be on the border of Judah and Edom. AMORITES is probably a misreading for 'Edomites.' The spot lies on a line betw...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT THIS BOOK BELIEFS The book called Judges was in the *Hebrew *Scriptures. It was in the section called Former (earlier) *Prophets. In Deuteronomy Chap...
THE COAST OF THE AMORITES. — This notice is added to account for the obstinate resistance of the Amorites, by showing the extent of their domain, which reached far to the south of Petra. Hazezon Tamar...
וּ גְבוּל֙ הָ אֱמֹרִ֔י מִֽ מַּעֲלֵ֖ה עַקְרַבִּ֑ים...
FLAGGING IN THEIR GREAT TASK Judges 1:16; Judges 2:1 The conquest of Canaan was very partial. Israel dwelled among the ancient inhabitants of the land, much as the Normans did among the Anglo-Saxons,...
The Book of Judges covers historically a period from the death of Joshua to the judgeship of Samuel and the introduction of the monarchy. It opens with a description of the general condition of affair...
God selected Judah to lead the rest of the tribes into battle. Judah asked Simeon to go with him and promised to help him conquer his lot if he would help conquer that of Judah. They killed 10,000 Can...
And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the (p) rock, and upward. (p) Or Selah, which was a city in Arabia....
_Rock, Petra, the capital of Arabia, which Josephus ([Antiquities?] iii. 2,) assigns to Amalec. The Amorrhites dwelt in many parts of the land of promise, (Calmet) particularly in the higher places ab...
I include all these verses within one view, because one general observation suits the whole. We see in them the sad picture of Israel's want of faith, and consequently want of courage. Had those tribe...
REFLECTIONS SEE, my soul, in the history of Israel, what conflicts await the believer after a work of grace is begun in the heart. Let not him that putteth on the harness boast like him that putteth i...
The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
Thus, in the beginning of the book, we see evil and failure, and also simple and blessed deliverances. But alas! the picture darkens more and more. There are grievous features even in the conduct of t...
AND THE COAST OF THE AMORITES [WAS] FROM THE GOING UP TO AKRABBIM,.... Of which Numbers 34:4 and Joshua 15:3: FROM THE ROCK, AND UPWARDS; even from the city Petra in Idumea, and beyond that; and the...
[IOSHUAS EXHORTATION, HIS AGE, AND DEATH.] 1 The actes of Iudah and Simeon. 4 Adonibezek iustly requited. 8 Hierusalem taken. 10 Hebron taken. 11 Othniel hath Achsah to wife for taking of Debir....
And the coast of the Amorites, at the time of the conquest of the land, WAS FROM THE GOING UP TO AKRABBIM, FROM THE ROCK, AND UPWARD, from the Scorpion-height in the southeast over to the extreme sout...
VARIOUS HEATHEN LEFT IN CANAAN...
INITIAL VICTORIES, YET IMPAIRED (vv. 1-26) Joshua having died, Israel does not subside into indifference, but realizes that there is territory that should be possessed. They therefore appeal to the...
THE GOING UP TO AKRABBIM: Or, MaaleAkrabbim...
21-36 The people of Israel were very careless of their duty and interest. Owing to slothfulness and cowardice, they would not be at the pains to complete their conquests. It was also owing to their c...
AKRABBIM was in the southern part of Canaan, JOSHUA 15:2,3, from whence it went up towards the north. This is added to show the great power and large extent of this people....
Judges 1:36 boundary H1366 Amorites H567 Ascent H4608 Akrabbim H4610 Sela H5553 upward H4605 from the going -...
‘ And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upwards.' Akkrabim was a mountain pass at the southern end of the Dead Sea (Numbers 34:4; Joshua 15:3), between the Arab...
Judges 1 AND JUDGES 2 The character of Joshua is, like that of many soldiers, simple and easily understood. He was strong and of a good courage, a man, fit not only for battle, but for tedious campaig...
CONTENTS: The incomplete victories of Judah, Benjamin and Manasseh. CHARACTERS: God, Judah, Simeon, Adoni-bezek, Caleb, Achsah, Othniel. CONCLUSION: God appoints service according to the strength He...
Judges 1:1. _After the death of Joshua,_ whose death was to the Jews the commencement of new troubles; they asked counsel of the Lord, as directed, Numbers 27:21, by Phinehas the priest. Judges 1:3. J...
_The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain._ A NEGLECT OF DUTY INJURIOUS TO OTHERS So that we see that the negligence of the other tribes in suffering the forbidden nations to remain...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 1:22 After an initial success at Bethel (vv. Judges 1:22), six tribes failed to drive out the Canaanites from their territories (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 1:17. And Judah went with Simeon.] The history is here resumed, after the digression (Judges 1:8). ZEPHATH OR HORMAH.] The latter name, meaning “_a devoting_,” was evidently g...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 1:21 This verse is identical with Joshua 15:63, except that there we read "the children of Judah" instead of "the children of Benjamin," as in this verse. The boundary line between...
Through Moses, the children of Israel were let out of Egypt and God began to form a national kind of identity and began to forge the beginnings of a nation. At the death of Moses, Joshua, who was the...
Joshua 15:2; Numbers 34:4...
Akrabbim — Which was in the southern part of Canaan, Joshua 15:2, from whence it went up towards the north. This is added to shew the great power and large extent of this people....