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Jud 1:1
1:1 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 @Ex 28:30, Nu 27:21, 1Sa 28:6
(b) Who shall be our captain?
Jud 1:3
1:3 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, @Jos 19:1.
Jud 1:6
1:6 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,
@Le 24:19,20.
Jud 1:8
1:8 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, @2Sa 5:6.
Jud 1:10
1:10 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.
Jud 1:14
1:14 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 @Jos 15:18.
Jud 1:16
1:16 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
@Nu 10:29.
Jud 1:18
1:18 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, @1Sa 6:17.
Jud 1:21
1:21 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.
Jud 1:27
1:27 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 God permitted the Canaanites to still dwell
in the land, read @Jud 3:5.
Jud 1:30
1:30 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.
Jud 1:32
1:32 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.
Jud 1:35
1:35 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.
Jud 1:36
1:36 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.