Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
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Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
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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.
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And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
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Passages linked to Judges 1:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 11:6-8 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them. Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
- 1 Samuel 11:8 He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
- Exodus 23:28-29 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
- Deuteronomy 9:3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
- Joshua 10:8-10 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.” Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night. Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
- 1 Samuel 14:6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
- 1 Samuel 14:10 But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”
- 1 Samuel 17:46-47 Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”
- 1 Kings 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
- 1 Kings 22:15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD…
Jdg 1:4 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.
Ver. 4. And they slew of them in Bezek.] Saul’s rendezvous. {1Sa 11:8}
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4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 4. For there are certain men] Not worthy to be named, as that rich glutton, Luk 16:19.
Crept in unawares] παρεισεδυσαν, stealing their passage, and making as if they minded nothing less. Thus Socrates (the writer of the Ecclesiastical History) was a close Novatian, as the learned Jacobus Billius observeth; he favoureth that heresy all along his history, sed ita oblique, ut minus perspicaci Lectori non tam dolori suo atque irae obsequi quam veritatis rationem habere videatur, but he doth it so cunningly, that a man would think he did it out of pure regard to the truth. (Observat. Sacrar. i. 26.) So Spondanus, the epitomizer of Baronius, drinks to his readers the pernicious poison of Hildebrand’s heresies, quasi aliud agens, as if he intended no such matter.
Ordained to this] Gr. προγεγραμμενοι, written down, enrolled, set down in the black bill.
Turning the grace of our God] Gr. μετατιθεμενοι, translating it from its proper end, perverting it, by arguing from mercy to liberty, which is the devil’s logic. Corruptio optimi est pessima. The corruption of the best is the worst. Learned men have conceived, saith Plutarch, that as of oxen, being dead and rotten, there breed bees, of horses wasps, of asses beetles; so men’s bodies, when the marrow melteth and gathereth together, do bring forth serpents. The grace of God, if turned into wantonness, becometh the "savour of death unto death."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Not in the city, for that was not yet…
Not in the city, for that was not yet taken, Jdg 1:5, but in the territory of it, or near to it; as in Hor is taken, Num 33:37; and in Jericho, Jos 5:13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Judah went up,.... Simeon being along with him,…
And Judah went up,.... Simeon being along with him, from the southern parts of the land, where they dwelt, and went more northward towards Jerusalem, and which therefore is called a going up:
and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands: into the hands of Judah and Simeon: the Canaanites here is not the common name of the seven nations, but the name of one of those nations, distinguished from the rest, as here from the Perizzites, who otherwise were also Canaanites; and both these, at least many of them, dwelt in those parts, and were subdued by the united forces of Judah and Simeon, whereby the Lord's promise was fulfilled, Jdg 1:2,
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and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men: that is, in and about Bezek, first and last, in the course of this war, as after related. Jerom says (d) there were two villages of this name in his time near one another, seven miles from Neapolis, as you go to Scythopolis; and our countryman Mr. Sandys (e) says, that when they departed from Bethlehem, bending their course from the mountains of Judea lying west from it, near to which, on the side of the opposite hill, they passed a little village called Bezek, as he took it, two miles from Bethsur, see Sa1 11:8.
(d) De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H. (e) Travels, p. 142. Ed. 5th.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In Bezek - Not in the city, for that…
In Bezek - Not in the city, for that was not yet taken, ver. 5, but in the territory of it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 1:4. Judah went up — The people of…
Jdg 1:4. Judah went up — The people of that tribe were principally concerned in this expedition, and therefore are only mentioned, though those of the tribe of Simeon went up with them. And the Lord delivered, &c. — We meet with no such pious expression (which occurs often here) in any heathen writer. In them every success is attributed to the conduct and valour of the generals, or the strength and courage of the forces; but in the Scriptures every success is attributed to God only. They slew them in Bezek — Not in the city, for that was not yet taken, (Jdg 1:5,) but in the territory of it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Canaanites and the Perizzites - See Gen 12:6,…
The Canaanites and the Perizzites - See Gen 12:6, note; Gen 13:7, note. Bezek may be the name of a district. It has not yet been identified.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Pherezite. This name denotes "a countryman," as the former…
Pherezite. This name denotes "a countryman," as the former does "a merchant." None of the children of Chanaan were of this appellation, Genesis x. 15. The people of the country assembled therefore at Bezec, where Saul called a rendezvous when he was going to attack Jabes, and which seems to have been near the Jordan, 17 miles from Sichem. (Eusebius; St. Jerome) --- It signifies "lightning." A place of this name lies to the west of Bethlehem. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain DEFEAT OF ADONI-BEZEK, Jdg_1:4-7.
DEFEAT OF ADONI-BEZEK, Jdg_1:4-7.
4. Judah went up — That is, in the military sense, as in Jdg_1:1. Judah proceeded to the war.
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The Lord delivered — The devout Hebrew was remarkable for acknowledging the Divine hand in all his victories. The civilisation which laughs at all faith in the supernatural, and makes the strongest battalions the arbiters of battles, is very defective.
The Canaanites and the Perizzites — On these nations see note on Jos_3:10. There seems to have been a gathering of these foes under Adoni-bezek for the purpose of conquering and oppressing Israel, and to crush the rising rebellion Judah led an army promptly against the gathering host, and fought the decisive battle in Bezek. This place is mentioned only once again, at 1Sa_11:8, where the context shows it to have been near the Jordan valley, and within a day’s journey of Jabesh-gilead. Its site has not been identified, but there is no good reason for maintaining that this Bezek must have been within the tribe of Judah. It may have been expedient for Judah to march beyond his borders, and attack the enemy on their own grounds.
Ten thousand men — Ancient battles were more destructive of human life, because there were generally no prisoners taken, or, if taken, their sufferings in slavery were worse than death on the field.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. This verse is made up of general phrases…
4. This verse is made up of general phrases borrowed from Jdg_1:5-7, with the addition of the 10,000—a common round number, Jdg_3:29, Jdg_4:6, Jdg_7:3. The story of Adoni-bezek which follows has evidently been abridged; the editor has substituted a verse of his own for the omitted clauses. Note that the verb went up is singular; Judah alone is mentioned, as in the other editorial Jdg_1:8-10; Jdg_1:18.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) And Judah went up.—Under the leadership of Caleb…
(4) And Judah went up.—Under the leadership of Caleb (Jos_14:6).
The Canaanites and the Perizzites.—See Gen_13:7; Gen_34:30. The former seem to have been lowlanders—“by the sea and by the coast of Jordan” (Num_13:29), “on the east and on the west” (Jos_11:3; Jos_17:16). The Perizzites were the mountain and forest tribes (Jos_11:3; Jos_17:15). Their antiquity and importance appear from the allusions to them in Gen_13:7; Gen_34:30; 1Ki_9:20; 2Es_1:21. The name itself seems to imply “open villages” (1Sa_6:18; Deu_3:5), and may imply that they were agriculturists. The name does not occur in the genealogy of nations in Genesis 10
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In Bezek.—The name means “lightning.” There seems to be no adequate reason to distinguish this town from the one mentioned in 1Sa_11:8. Saul numbered the people there before his expedition to deliver Jabesh Gilead. At first sight the mention of this town is surprising, for we have no information of any Bezek except the two villages of that name referred to by Eusebius and Jerome, which were seventeen miles from Shechem, and therefore in the lot of Ephraim. It is, however, needless to conjecture that there was another Bezek in the lot of Judah. We must suppose that the two warlike tribes began their conquest by marching into the centre of Palestine to strike a blow at the main stronghold of Canaanitish power. Ewald conjectures that in this expedition they took Shiloh, and refers Gen_49:8-12 to this fact, rendering “till he come to Shiloh” (Hist. Isr. i. 284, E. Tr.). If this chapter does not refer retrospectively to events which occurred before the death of Joshua, it might well be considered strange that this powerful king is not mentioned among those attacked by the Israelites in Joshua’s lifetime. It is, however, possible, as Ewald suggests, that a new power may have sprung up.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The men of Judah attacked
The men of Judah attacked
It is implied that the men of Simeon attacked with the men of Judah. (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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They killed ten thousand
"They killed about 10,000" or "They killed a large number" (See: Numbers)
of them
"soldiers of the Canaanites and Perizzites" or "enemies"
Bezek
This is an area in the mountains of Canaan. (See: How to Translate Names)
Adoni-Bezek
This man was the leader of the army of the Canaanites and the Perizzites. (See: How to Translate Names)
they fought against him
Here "him" actually refers to Adoni-Bezek and his army. AT: "they fought against him and his army" (See: Synecdoche)
translationWords
Judah
Yahweh
Canaan
Perizzite
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