Judges 1:1 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 1:1

Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

KJV

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YLT

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask at Jehovah, saying, `Who doth go up for us unto the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?'

DBT

And it came to pass after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked Jehovah, saying, Which of us shall go up against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

ASV

And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of Jehovah, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

WEB

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”

About this book

Old Testament

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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24 verses on the floor

Judges 20:18
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.
Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the Lord: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
Judges 20:28
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Joshua 9:14
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

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Whether each tribe was ambitious of being first, and so strove for the honour of it, or whether each was afraid of being first, and so strove to decline it, does not appear; but by common consent the matter was referred to God himself, who is the fittest both to dispose of honours and to cut out work. God appointed that Judah should go up first, and promised him success (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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JDG 1:1EXO 28:30 NUM 27:21
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 1:1EXO 28:30 NEH 7:65
JDG 1:1EXO 28:30 EZR 2:63
JDG 1:1EXO 28:30 DEU 33:8
JDG 1:1EXO 28:30 LEV 8:8
JDG 1:1JDG 20:28 JDG 7:9
JDG 1:1NUM 27:21 1SA 28:6
JDG 1:1NUM 27:21 JOS 9:14

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