Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:22
‘ And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.’ It appears that Bethel, having possibly (but not necessarily) been taken along with Ai in the days of Joshua 8:0, had again been occupied by Canaanites after the Israelites moved on. It lay on the borders of the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh. Therefore they combined together to take it. “And Yahweh was with them.” Thus they would be victorious. read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:21
God’s Activities Through the Other Tribes and Their Disobedience (Judges 1:21-36 ). Judges 1:21 ‘ And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem. But the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.’ This seems to mean that they could have driven them out of the part of Jerusalem and its surrounds that they occupied, but that they did not. They were disobedient. In Joshua 15:63 we read that Judah could not drive the Jebusites... read more