Judges 1:32
in Judges 1So the Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
KJV
But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
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This verse in Judges 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
It is an evidence of the power of the Canaanite in this portion of the land that it is not said (compare Jdg 1:30) that the Canaanites dwelt among the Asherites, but that the Asherites (and Jdg 1:33, Naphtali) “dwelt among the Canaanites;” nor are the Canaanites in Accho, Zidon, and the other Asherite cities, said to have become tributaries.
This site's exposition
Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants
on Judges 1:27-33
Five tribes fail in the same form, and the wording weakens as the list runs. Manasseh's towns are the fortress chain across the Jezreel valley, and Israel "pressed the Canaanites into forced labor", which Solomon still used at 1 Kings 9:21. At verse 32 "the Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants", so the tribe has become the one living in somebody else's country.
This site's exposition
because they did not drive them out
Albert Barnes adds that Asher's Canaanites are never said to have been put to forced labor, as Zebulun's were in verse 30. He reads this as a sign of Canaanite strength in that region. Naphtali at least drew labor from two towns in verse 33.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land,.... They were in a worse condition than those before mentioned; for the Canaanites were possessed of their country, especially of the above cities, and were masters of them; and the Asherites only dwelt among them upon sufferance: for they did not drive them out; either they did not attempt it, or they could not do it, and contented themselves with having leave to dwell among them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ | vaiyeshev | and it dwelt | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| הָאָ֣שֵׁרִ֔י | haasheri | the Asherite[s] | H843 → | |
| בְּקֶ֥רֶב | bekerev | in [the] midst of | H7130 → | 227 times |
| הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י | hakenaani | the Canaanite[s] | H3669 → | 73 times |
| יֹשְׁבֵ֣י | yoshevei | [the] inhabitants of | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כִּ֖י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הוֹרִישֽׁוֹ׃ ס | horisho | it dispossessed it | H3423 → | 231 times |
וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙and it dwelt
vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times
הָאָ֣שֵׁרִ֔יthe Asherite[s]
haasheriH843 →
בְּקֶ֥רֶבin [the] midst of
bekerevH7130 →227 times
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖יthe Canaanite[s]
hakenaaniH3669 →73 times
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י[the] inhabitants of
yosheveiH3427 →1079 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
כִּ֖יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
הוֹרִישֽׁוֹ׃ סit dispossessed it
horishoH3423 →231 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Judges
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; 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.