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Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)

Judges 1:3

Needful; on account of their danger from false teachers.

The faith; the truths taught by Christ and his apostles. Ministers in addressing their people should select such subjects as are pertinent to their circumstances; especially should they warn their hearers against prevailing errors which tend to draw them from the faith and practice of the gospel.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 1:3. _COME UP WITH ME INTO MY LOT_] It appears that the portions of Judah and Simeon had not been cleared of the Canaanites, or that these were the parts which were now particularly invad...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The conquests of Judah_ 2 _.the land_ Not the whole land, but the part which had fallen to Judah's lot....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Judah said unto Simeon his brother_ The personification of a tribe or nation is common in O.T. idiom, e.g. Judges 11:17; Numbers 20:14; Joshua 17:14 etc.; hence the tribal traditions often take t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    General Introduction to the Period of Judges Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5 _Judah and Simeon Capture Adoni-bezek Judges 1:1-7_ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel as...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND JUDAH SAID UNTO SIMEON HIS BROTHER, COME UP WITH ME INTO MY LOT, THAT WE MAY FIGHT AGAINST THE CANAANITES; AND I LIKEWISE WILL GO WITH THEE INTO THY LOT. SO SIMEON WENT WITH HIM._ Judah said unt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Simeon] The towns of Simeon (Joshua 19:1) are also attributed to Judah (Joshua 15:26; Joshua 15:42). Later, Simeon ceases to exist as an independent tribe. MY LOT] Each tribe has had a part of Canaan...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTO SIMEON HIS BROTHER. — Both Judah and Simeon were sons of Leah. It was natural that the two tribes should help one another, because their lots were conterminous; indeed, the lot of the Simeonites...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָה֩ לְ שִׁמְעֹ֨ון אָחִ֜יו ע

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PROBLEMS OF SETTLEMENT AND WAR Judges 1:1 IT was a new hour in the history of Israel. To a lengthened period of serfdom there had succeeded a time of sojourn in tents, when the camp of the tribes, ha...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    RENEWING THE CONQUEST Judges 1:1 The land had been given. There could be no doubt about _that._ In the ancient covenant which Jehovah had made with Abram, He said: “Unto thy seed have I given this la...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Judah said unto Simeon his (c) brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. (c) For the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Brother. They had the same mother, Lia, and were intermixed in the same country. The two tribes unite both for the public and their own private advantage. The king whom they attacked first, did not d...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It should seem that, as this verse is inclosed in a parenthesis, it only meant to notice what had been said before. Probably Jerusalem was taken in the wars of Joshua. See Joshua 10:1, etc....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JUDAH SAID UNTO SIMEON HIS BROTHER,.... The men of the tribe of Judah said to those of the tribe of Simeon, they being not only brethren by father's and mother's side, which was not the case of al...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. Ver. 3. _And Jud...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Judah said unto Simeon_ As nearest to him, both by relation, being his brother by both parents, and by habitation. _Come up with me against the Canaanites_ Which people, with the Perizzites, still po...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Judah said unto Simeon, his brother, the tribe having its cities in the midst of the possession of Judah, Joshua 19:1, COME UP WITH ME INTO MY LOT, share my lot with me, join forces with me in thi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OVERTHROW OF VARIOUS ENEMIES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The Israelites were convinced that the war against the Canaanites was to be continued; but they were in doubt as to the manner in which it was to be carried on after the death of Joshua. In these...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    UNTO SIMEON HIS BROTHER; as nearest to him both by relation, being his brother by both parents, which few of them were; and by habitation, as appears from JOSHUA 19:1,2. AGAINST THE CANAANITES; specia...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 1:3 Judah H3063 said H559 (H8799) Simeon H8095 brother H251 up H5927 (H8798) territory H1486 fight...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And in the same way I will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.' “AND JU...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _The children of Israel asked the Lord._ SIMPLICITY IN PRAYER Just that! How we have modernised and complicated and destroyed prayer! “The children of Israel asked the Lord.” How simple, how direct,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 1:1 The Roots of Israel’s Unfaithfulness. This introduction identifies the root causes and effects of Israel’s wickedness. The pattern established here repeats throughout the boo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 1:2 JUDAH SHALL GO UP. Judah had been destined for leadership in Israel since receiving Jacob’s blessing (Genesis 49:8). Jud

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _FAITHFULNESS AND UNFAITHFULNESS IN THE LORD’S WAR_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 1:1. Now after the death of Joshua.] The Speaker’s Commentary says on these opening words: “But from Judges 1:1 to Judges 2...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 1:1 AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSHUA. The events narrated in Joshua 1:1. and Joshua 2:1 all occurred before the death of Joshua, as appears by...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 10:11; Genesis 29:33; Joshua 19:1; Judges 1:17...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JUDE'S CERTAIN MEN _ The Book of Jude_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The statement, "Thy testimonies are wonderful" is nowhere more strikingly true than in the Book of Jude. No photographer ever made a better...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To Simeon — As nearest to him both by relation, being his brother by both parents, and by habitation. The Canaanites — Specially so called, because they are distinguished from the Perizzites, Judges 1...

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