Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of
Israel (a) asked the LORD, saying, (b) Who shall go up for us against
the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
(a) By the judgment of Urim; Read (Exodus 28:30; Numbers 27:21; 1
Samuel 28:6)
(b) Who shall be our captain?... [ Continue Reading ]
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 tribe of Simeon had their inheritance within the tribe of
Judah, (Joshua 19:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and
(d) cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
(d) This was God's just judgment, as the tyrant himself confesses,
that as he had done, so did he receive, (Leviticus 24:19).... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken
it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the (e) city on
fire.
(e) Which was later built again, and possessed by the Jebusites, (2
Samuel 5:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the
name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:) and they slew (f) Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai.
(f) These three were giants, and the children of Anak.... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask
of her father a field: (g) and she lighted from off [her] ass; and
Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
(g) Read (Joshua 15:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the children of the (h) Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out
of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the
wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went
and dwelt among the people.
(h) This was one of the names of Moses father in law, read (Numbers... [ Continue Reading ]
Also Judah took (i) Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the
coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
(i) These cities and others were later possessed by the Philistines,
(1 Samuel 6:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that (k)
inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
(k) For after the tribe of Judah had burnt it, they built it again.... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean and her
towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her
towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: (l) but the Canaanites would
dwell in that land.
(l) Wherefore... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither did (m) Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the
inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and
became tributaries.
(m) That is, the tribe of Zebulun as is also to be understood of the
rest.... [ Continue Reading ]
But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the
land: for they did not drive them (n) out.
(n) But made them pay tribute as the others did.... [ Continue Reading ]
But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in
Shaalbim: yet the (o) hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that
they became tributaries.
(o) Meaning, when he was stronger than they.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]