Judges 1:19 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Judges 1:19

17 ^aAnd Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they attacked the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called ^bHormah.

18 Also Judah took ^aGaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

19 So the Lord was with Judah. And they drove out the mountaineers, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland, because they had ^achariots of iron.

20 ^aAnd they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said. Then he¹ expelled from there the ^bthree sons of Anak.

21 ^aBut the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; so the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

22 And the¹ house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, ^aand the Lord was with them.

23 So the¹ house of Joseph ^asent men to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city was formerly ^bLuz.)

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And Judah went with Simeon his brother—The course of the narrative is here resumed from Judges 1:9, and an account given of Judah returning the services of Simeon (Judges 1:3), by aiding in the prosecution of the war within the neighboring tribes.

slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath—or Zephathah (II Chronicles 14:10), a valley lying in the southern portion of Canaan.

Hormah—destroyed in fulfilment of an early vow of the Israelites (see on Numbers 21:2). The confederate tribes, pursuing their incursions in that quarter, came successively to Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, which they took. But the Philistines seem soon to have regained possession of these cities.

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