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Judges 1:17

Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

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Cross-references (5)

Passages linked to Judges 1:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 21:3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.
  • Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
  • Joshua 19:4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
  • Judges 1:3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.
  • 2 Chronicles 14:10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

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Explain this verse (16 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother,…

Jdg 1:17 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.

Ver. 17. And utterly destroyed it.] So that this city was twice utterly ruined, and therefore called Horma, devoted to destruction.

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“ Roma diu titubans, variis erroribus acta

Corruct, et mundi desinet esse caput. ”

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ver. 17. Of the apostles] Paul and Peter, from whom St Jude borroweth much from his Epistle. See my Preface to God’s Love Tokens.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Judah went with Simeon his brother, according to his…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Judah went with Simeon his brother,.... Having subtitled…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Judah went with Simeon - According to his promise,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. The city was called Hormah.] This appears…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 1:17. Judah went with Simeon — According to…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hormah - See Num 21:1 note. The destruction then…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sephaath, near Maresa, where Asa defeated the king of…
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures 1864 · Public Domain Simeon’s territory is conquered, and Judah takes the Philistine…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And Judah went with Simeon his brother--The course of…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain CONQUEST OF ZEPHATH AND THREE CITIES OF PHILISTIA, Jdg_1:17-19.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Zephath] Only here; the site is unknown. So…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Zephath.—This name is only mentioned elsewhere in 2Ch_14:10,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Judah went with Simeon. In ver. 3 Simeon went…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Zephath . . . Hormah.
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Jdg_1:17. And Judah went with Simeon.]

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