Judges 1:18

The statement that Judah captured three out of the five chief cities of the Philistines cannot be reconciled with any ancient tradition; it contradicts the next verse and Judges 3:3; Joshua 13:2 f.; it represents the unhistorical theory of the conquest which is found in Judges 1:4; Judges 1:8-9, and like them must be regarded as the work of a late redaction. The LXX reads -and Judah did not dispossess" (a different word from -took"), and other versions insert the negative; this seems to get over the difficulty; but the LXX version here has little critical value. The expression -with the borderthereof," instead of -and the daughters thereof" (Judges 1:27), betrays a different hand.