The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
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The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
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And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
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And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day.
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Passages linked to Judges 1:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
- 2 Chronicles 1:17 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 1:26 And the man went into the land…
Jdg 1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which [is] the name thereof unto this day.
Ver. 26. And built a city.] Therefore it seemeth he was well rewarded, and not in counterfeit coin: as the Spaniard rewarded a countryman of ours who had betrayed a town to him in the Netherlands, saying that false money was good enough for so false a knave.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The land of the Hittites; where the Hittites seated…
The land of the Hittites; where the Hittites seated themselves after they were driven out of Canaan, which seems to be northward from Canaan, and near unto it. See 1Ki 11:1; 2Ch 1:17.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the man went into the land of the…
And the man went into the land of the Hittites,.... With his family; Kimchi says this was not one of the seven nations of Canaan; and it is very clear from this narrative, that the land this man went to was not in the land of Canaan; though it is certain a people of this name formerly dwelt there, Gen 15:20; and the land of Canaan is called the land of the Hittites, Jos 1:4; these either might flee to another country upon Joshua's entry into the land of Canaan, or a colony of them from thence might settle elsewhere, to which this man chose to go, who might be originally of them:
and built a city; his family was numerous, and he a man of wealth, and was allowed to carry all his substance with him:
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and called the name of it Luz; in memory of the place he left, and had long lived in. There is a city called Loussa, among the cities which Josephus says (s) were taken by the Jews from the Arabians; and which is very probably the Lysa of Ptolemy (t), which he places in Arabia Petraea, and might be the same with this Luz; and, if so, this shows the land this man went into was in Edom, which is not unlikely; there is another Luza, which Jerom (u) says fell to the lot of the sons of Joseph, near Sichem, three miles from Neapolis:
which is the name thereof unto this day: the time of the writing of this book; See Gill on Jdg 1:21.
(s) Antiqu. l. 14. c. 1. sect. 4. (t) Geograph. l. 5. c. 17. (u) De loc. Heb. fol. 92. M.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Hittites - Where the Hittites seated themselves after…
The Hittites - Where the Hittites seated themselves after they were driven out of Canaan, which seems to be northward from Canaan, and near upon it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. The land of the Hittites] Probably some…
Verse 26. The land of the Hittites] Probably some place beyond the land of Canaan, in Arabia, whither this people emigrated when expelled by Joshua. The man himself appears to have been a Hittite, and to perpetuate the name of his city he called the new one which he now founded Luz, this being the ancient name of Beth-el.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 1:26. The man went and built a city…
Jdg 1:26. The man went and built a city — Which is an argument that the children of Ephraim dismissed him and his family, with all their goods and estate. The land of the Hittites — Where the Hittites fixed themselves after they were driven out of Canaan, which seems to have been northward from Canaan, and not far distant from it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The site of this new Luz is not known,…
The site of this new Luz is not known, but “the land of the Hittites” was apparently in the north of Palestine, on the borders of Syria (Gen 10:15 note).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Hetthim. The Hethite lived towards the south of Chanaan.…
Hetthim. The Hethite lived towards the south of Chanaan. The man probably retired into the stony Arabia, where we find the city of Lusa or Elysa. (Ptolemy v. 16.) --- He gave it this name in memory of his native city, (Calmet) which was called Luza, or "of nuts." (Menochius)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Luz--(See on Gen 12:7; Gen 28:18).
Luz--(See on Gen 12:7; Gen 28:18).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. The man went into the land of the…
26. The man went into the land of the Hittites — The Hebrew historian had special interest in the fortunes of those who, like this man and Rahab, advanced the interests of Israel. The land of the Hittites is an obscure expression. It seems, in some passages, to refer to the whole interior of Palestine. Jos_1:4. Eusebius and Jerome refer it to the island of Cyprus. Cassel thinks it here refers “to the familiarly known Chittim, north of Israel,” and he accordingly seeks for the Luz which this man built in the northern coasts of Phenicia, and suggests its identity with the ruins of Kulb Lousy, which Thomson discovered far in the north of Palestine. But the subject is too much involved in obscurity for a positive settlement.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. the land of the Hittites] Cappadocia seems to…
26. the land of the Hittites] Cappadocia seems to have been the original home of the powerful, non-Semitic race of the Hittites, known to the Egyptians as Ḫeta. They are first mentioned in the inscriptions of Thothmes III (1500 b.c.), in whose time their empire extended southwards to the district of Kommagene, N. of Carchemish. Later on they pushed further south, into the upper valley of the Orontes. Throughout the period of the Tell el-Amarna tablets (c. 1400 b.c.) and of the Assyrian inscriptions from the 12th to the 8th cents. (Tiglath-pileser I to Sargon) ‘the land of the Hittites,’ mat Ḫatti, is in N. Syria. This is no doubt the situation intended here and in Jdg_3:3 (corrected), Jos_1:4, 1Ki_10:20, 2Ki_7:6. Later writers, especially P, mention Hittites as settled in Central or Southern Palestine (Hebron), Gen_23:10 etc., Gen_26:34, Num_13:29, perhaps using the term loosely for the original inhabitants of Canaan. We have no means of identifying the northern Luz. The tradition of its origin reminds us of the story of the northern Dan, Jdg_18:27 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) Into the land of the Hittites.—Probably the inhabitants…
(26) Into the land of the Hittites.—Probably the inhabitants of Bethel belonged to this tribe of Canaanites. In Jos_1:4 their name is used for all the inhabitants of Canaan, but probably it means the coastdwellers. They are often conjecturally classed with the inhabitants of Citium, in Cyprus. They first appear as “children of Heth,” in Gen_23:19, but seem at that time to have been only a small tribe. Abraham, as Ewald observes, went to the Amorites for his allies, but to the Hittites for his grave. The Talmud says that this Luz was famous for its purple dye, and partly on this account Thomson identifies it with Kulb Louzy, not far from Antioch. It was not uncommon in ancient days for the fugitives from a city to build another city elsewhere of the same name. Thus Teucer, when driven from Salamis, built a new Salamis in Cyprus:
“Ambiguam tellure novâ Salamina futuram” (Hor. Od. i. 7).
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Although the site of this new Luz has not been certainly identified, it was probably in some northern district on the Phœnician frontier (Ewald).
Unto this day.—This formula implies the lapse of some time between the event and this record of it.
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