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Judges 1:30

in Judges 1

Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Zebulun drove not out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to taskwork.

KJV

Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

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This verse in Judges 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Neither did Manasseh drive out

on Judges 1:27-33

Five tribes are listed in the same form here, Neither did Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher and Naphtali drive out, and the wording weakens as the list runs. Manasseh's towns are Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam and Megiddo, the chain of fortresses across the valley of Jezreel, and Taanach and Megiddo are where Deborah's song puts the battle at 5:19 while Beth-shean is where Saul's body is fastened to the wall at 1 Samuel 31:10. Verse 28 names what Israel did instead of removing them, tribute, which turned a command into a source of income, and 1 Kings 9:20 to 21 says Solomon was still collecting it. At verse 32 the sentence turns over, since it is the Asherites who dwelt among the Canaanites rather than the Canaanites among Israel, and the tribe has become the one living in somebody else's country.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The same course of subjugation was carried on in the other tribes to a partial extent, and with varying success. Many of the natives, no doubt, during the progress of this exterminating war, saved themselves by flight and became, it is thought, the first colonists in Greece, Italy, and other countries.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Neither did Zebulun drive out - See on Jos 19:10-15 (note).

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • זְבוּלֻ֗ןZebulun

    zevulunH2074 →45 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • הוֹרִישׁ֙it dispossessed

    horishH3423 →231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • קִטְר֔וֹןKitron

    kitronH7003 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • נַהֲלֹ֑לNahalol

    nahalolH5096 →

  • וַיֵּ֤שֶׁבand it dwelt

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙the Canaanite[s]

    hakenaaniH3669 →73 times

  • בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹin midst its

    bekirboH7130 →227 times

  • וַיִּֽהְי֖וּand they became

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • לָמַֽס׃ ס<into> forced labor

    lamasH4522 →23 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 19:15

    It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 11:1

      Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

    • 2 Chronicles 11:6

      He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

    • Joshua 21:34–35

      This is what the Merarite clan (the rest of the Levites) were given:

    • Ruth 1:19

      So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

    • Joshua 12:20

      the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Judges

The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 1 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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