_NOW AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSHUA IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ASKED THE LORD, SAYING, WHO SHALL GO UP FOR US AGAINST THE CANAANITES FIRST, TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM?_ Now after the death Joshua - probably not a long period; because the Canaanites seem to have taken advantage of the demise... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID, JUDAH SHALL GO UP: BEHOLD, I HAVE DELIVERED THE LAND INTO HIS HAND._ The Lord said, Judah shall go up. The predicted pre-eminence (Genesis 49:8) was thus conferred upon Judah by divine direction; and its appointment to take the lead in the ensuing hostilities was of great import... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 unto Simeon ... Come up with me. Being conterminous tribes (Joshua 19:1), they had a common interest, a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JUDAH WENT UP; AND THE LORD DELIVERED THE CANAANITES AND THE PERIZZITES INTO THEIR HAND: AND THEY SLEW OF THEM IN BEZEK TEN THOUSAND MEN._ Bezek. This place lay within the allotted domain of Judah. According to Eusebius and Jerome ('Onomast.'), it was near Beth-shan, as was another town of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY FOUND ADONIBEZEK IN BEZEK: AND THEY FOUGHT AGAINST HIM, AND THEY SLEW THE CANAANITES AND THE PERIZZITES._ They found, х_ WAYIMTSª'UW_ (H4672), they found, came upon]. ADONI-BEZEK - i:e., lord of Bezek; i:e., they surprised and routed him [Septuagint, [katelaboon] in a pitched battle, whe... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ADONIBEZEK FLED; AND THEY PURSUED AFTER HIM, AND CAUGHT HIM, AND CUT OFF HIS THUMBS AND HIS GREAT TOES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ADONIBEZEK SAID, THREESCORE AND TEN KINGS, HAVING THEIR THUMBS AND THEIR GREAT TOES CUT OFF, GATHERED THEIR MEAT UNDER MY TABLE: AS I HAVE DONE, SO GOD HATH REQUITED ME. AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, AND THERE HE DIED._ Threescore and ten kings. So great a number will not appear strange,... [ 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 CITY ON FIRE._ Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it. The capture of the important city Jerusalem, which ranks among the early inciden... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTERWARD THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WENT DOWN TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CANAANITES, THAT DWELT IN THE MOUNTAIN, AND IN THE SOUTH, AND IN THE VALLEY._ The children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt ... - (see the note at Joshua 15:21.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JUDAH WENT AGAINST THE CANAANITES THAT DWELT IN HEBRON: (NOW THE NAME OF HEBRON BEFORE WAS KIRJATH-ARBA:) AND THEY SLEW SHESHAI, AND AHIMAN, AND TALMAI._ Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron. [The Septuagint adds the following clause:-kai exeelthe Chebroon ex enantias, 'and H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND FROM THENCE HE WENT AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF DEBIR: AND THE NAME OF DEBIR BEFORE WAS KIRJATH-SEPHER:_ Debir. Its Canaanite name was Kirjath-sannah - i:e., 'city of palm' (Joshua 15:49); and Kirjath-sepher - i:e., 'city of book.' [Septuagint, polis grammatoon.] Its site is not certainly known... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CALEB SAID, HE THAT SMITETH KIRJATH-SEPHER, AND TAKETH IT, TO HIM WILL I GIVE ACHSAH MY DAUGHTER TO WIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ, CALEB'S YOUNGER BROTHER, TOOK IT: AND HE GAVE HIM ACHSAH HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE._ OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ, CALEB'S YOUNGER BROTHER. [The Septuagint has: Gothonieel huios Kenez adelfou Chaleb ho neooteros, the younger son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother.]... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SHE CAME TO HIM, THAT SHE MOVED HIM TO ASK OF HER FATHER A FIELD: AND SHE LIGHTED FROM OFF HER ASS; AND CALEB SAID UNTO HER, WHAT WILT THOU?_ When she came to him, [Septuagint, en tee eisodoo] - at her entrance, namely, into his tent; or, as she was about to start for his... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, GIVE ME A BLESSING: FOR THOU HAST GIVEN ME A SOUTH LAND; GIVE ME ALSO SPRINGS OF WATER. AND CALEB GAVE HER THE UPPER SPRINGS AND THE NETHER SPRINGS._ Give me also springs of water, х_ GULOT_ (H1543), bubbling fountains; Septuagint, lutroosin hudatos, a free flow of water].... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF THE 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._ THE CHILDREN OF THE KENITE, MOSES' FATHER-IN-LAW, х_ UWBNEEY_ (H1121) _ Q... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JUDAH WENT WITH SIMEON HIS BROTHER, AND THEY SLEW THE CANAANITES THAT INHABITED ZEPHATH, AND UTTERLY DESTROYED IT. AND THE NAME OF THE CITY WAS CALLED HORMAH._ Judah went with Simeon his brother. The course of the narrative is here resumed from Judges 1:9, and an account given of Judah returni... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO JUDAH TOOK GAZA WITH THE COAST THEREOF, AND ASKELON WITH THE COAST THEREOF, AND EKRON WITH THE COAST THEREOF._ Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof. The confederate tribes, pursuing their incursions in that quarter, came successively to Gaze, Askelon, and Ekron, which they took. But th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD WAS WITH JUDAH; AND HE DRAVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE MOUNTAIN; BUT COULD NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE VALLEY, BECAUSE THEY HAD CHARIOTS OF IRON._ The Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain. The war was of the Lord, whose omnipotent power would... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY GAVE HEBRON UNTO CALEB, AS MOSES SAID: AND HE EXPELLED THENCE THE THREE SONS OF ANAK._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN DID NOT DRIVE OUT THE JEBUSITES THAT INHABITED JERUSALEM; BUT THE JEBUSITES DWELL WITH THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN IN JERUSALEM UNTO THIS DAY._ The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem. Judah had expelled the people from their part... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH, THEY ALSO WENT UP AGAINST BETHEL: AND THE LORD WAS WITH THEM._ The house of Joseph - the tribe of Ephraim, as distinguished from Manasseh (Judges 1:27).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH SENT TO DESCRY BETHEL. (NOW THE NAME OF THE CITY BEFORE WAS LUZ.)_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPIES SAW A MAN COME FORTH OUT OF THE CITY, AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, SHEW US, WE PRAY THEE, THE ENTRANCE INTO THE CITY, AND WE WILL SHEW THEE MERCY._ The spies ... said ... Show us ... the entrance into the city - i:e., the avenues to the city, and the weakest part of the walls. WE WILL SH... [ 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: BUT THE CANAANITES WOULD DWELL IN THAT LAND._ Neither did Manas... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ISRAEL WAS STRONG, THAT THEY PUT THE CANAANITES TO TRIBUTE, AND DID NOT UTTERLY DRIVE THEM OUT._ When Israel was strong ... they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. Josephus ('Antiquities,' b. 5:, ch. 7:) gives a full commentary on this pas... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER DID EPHRAIM DRIVE OUT THE CANAANITES THAT DWELT IN GEZER; BUT THE CANAANITES DWELT IN GEZER AMONG THEM._ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer - a town and petty kingdom (Joshua 12:12) situated in the southern border of Ephraim, westward (1 Chronicles 7:28) betwe... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER DID ZEBULUN DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF KITRON, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF NAHALOL; BUT THE CANAANITES DWELT AMONG THEM, AND BECAME TRIBUTARIES._ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron = Katta [Septuagint, Kedroon], as may be inferred from its association with Nahalol here an... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER DID ASHER DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF ACCHO, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF ZIDON, NOR OF AHLAB, NOR OF ACHZIB, NOR OF HELBAH, NOR OF APHIK, NOR OF REHOB:_ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho. The name Accho was for a time superseded by the Greek form of Ptolemais, which is now f... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE ASHERITES DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND: FOR THEY DID NOT DRIVE THEM OUT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER DID NAPHTALI DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-SHE'MESH, NOR THE INHABITANTS OF BETHANATH; BUT HE DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND: NEVERTHELESS THE INHABITANTS OF BETH-SHE'MESH AND OF BETHANATH BECAME TRIBUTARIES UNTO THEM._ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE AMORITES FORCED THE CHILDREN OF DAN INTO THE MOUNTAIN: FOR THEY WOULD NOT SUFFER THEM TO COME DOWN TO THE VALLEY:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE AMORITES WOULD DWELL IN MOUNT HERES IN AIJALON, AND IN SHAALBIM: YET THE HAND OF THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH PREVAILED, SO THAT THEY BECAME TRIBUTARIES._ The hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. 'Midway between the open rich vales of Manasseh and Ephraim, and the... [ Continue Reading ]