Judges 1:1-33 WEB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:27-34

Judges 1:27-Nahum : . Partial Successes.— Several of the tribes failed to win the prizes they coveted. Much of the allotted territory remained in the hands of the Canaanites. Judges 1:27 . Beth-shan is now Beisâ n. Situated in a fertile part of the Jordan Valley, 3 m. W. of the river, it commanded the Vale of Jezreel (Wady Jâ lû d), which led up to the plain of Esdraelon. Its “ daughters” are its daughter towns, or dependencies. Taanach and Megiddo (p. 30), towns 5 m. apart, were on the south... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:1

After the death of Joshua; not long after it, because Othniel, the first judge, lived in Joshua's time. The children of Israel asked the Lord; being assembled together at Shiloh, they inquired of the high priest by the Urim and Thummim. See Numbers 27:21; Judges 20:18; 1 Samuel 23:9. Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first? Being sensible that the Canaanites are troublesome to them, and expected great advantage against them by their heedless condition, and finding their people to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:2

Not a person so called, but the tribe of Judah, as is manifest from Judges 1:3,Judges 1:4,Judges 1:8,Judges 1:9, which is chosen for the first enterprise, because they were both most populous, and so most needing enlargement; and withal most valiant, and therefore most likely to succeed; for God chooseth fit means for the work which he designs; and because the Canaanites were numerous and strong in those parts, and therefore where in time to be suppressed, before they grew too strong for them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:3

Unto Simeon his brother; as nearest to him both by relation, being his brother by both parents, which few of them were; and by habitation, as appears from Joshua 19:1,Joshua 19:2. Against the Canaanites; specially so called because they are distinguished from the Perizzites, Judges 1:4. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:4

Not in the city, for that was not yet taken, Judges 1:5, but in the territory of it, or near to it; as in Hor is taken, Numbers 33:37; and in Jericho, Joshua 5:13. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:5

Adoni-bezek; the lord or king of Bezek, as his name signifies, in Bezek; whither he fled, when he had lost the field. Against him, i.e. against the city wherein he had encamped himself, and the rest of his army. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:6

That he might be disenabled to fight with his hands, or to run away upon his feet. And this they did, either by the secret instinct and direction of God, or upon notice of his former tyranny and cruelty expressed upon others, in this manner, as it follows: either way it was a just requital. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:7

Threescore and ten kings; which is not strange in those times and places; for these might be either, first, kings successively, and so there might be divers of those kings in one place, and so in others; or, secondly, contemporary kings. For it is well known that anciently each ruler of a city, or great town, was called a king, and had kingly power in that place; and many such kings we meet with in Canaan; and it is probable that some years before kings were more numerous there, till the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:8

To wit, in Joshua’s time; which though done before, may be here repeated, to show why they brought Adoni-bezek to Jerusalem, because that city was in their hands, having been taken before, as may be gathered from Joshua 15:63. And the taking of this city may be ascribed to the children of Judah rather than to Joshua, because the city was not taken by Joshua and the whole body of the army in that time when so many kings were destroyed, Joshua 10:0; Joshua 12:0, (for there is mention made of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 1:10

Judah went, under the conduct of Caleb, as it is recorded, Joshua 15:11, &c.; for that relation, and this here following, are doubtless one and the same expedition and war, as appears by all the circumstances; and it is mentioned either there by anticipation, or here by repetition. Of this and the following verses, see the notes there. read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:27-34

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