Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the spies . . . said, . . . Show us, . . . the entrance into the city—that is, the avenues to the city, and the weakest part of the walls.
we will show thee mercy—The Israelites might employ these means of getting possession of a place which was divinely appropriated to them: they might promise life and rewards to this man, though he and all the Canaanites were doomed to destruction (Joshua 2:12-14); but we may assume the promise was suspended on his embracing the true religion, or quitting the country, as he did. If they had seen him to be firmly opposed to either of these alternatives, they would not have constrained him by promises any more than by threats to betray his countrymen. But if they found him disposed to be serviceable, and to aid the invaders in executing the will of God, they might promise to spare him.
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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Judges 1:24:
Judges 1:22-23
Isaiah 51:11
Acts 20:32-35
Romans 5:10
Romans 16:25
2 Corinthians 4:14
Philippians 1:6
James 1:27
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