Judges 1:34 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 1:34

The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

BSB

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ASV

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;

KJV

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The Amorites forced the children of Dan, etc. - Just as the ancient Britons were driven into the mountains of Wales by the Romans; and the native Indians driven back into the woods by the British settlers in America.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּלְחֲצ֧וּ	vai.yil.cha.Tzu	and they pressed	H3905 →
הָאֱמֹרִ֛י	ha.'e.mo.Ri	the Amorite[s]	H567 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בְּנֵי־	be.nei-	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
דָ֖ן	dan	Dan	H1835 →
הָהָ֑רָה	ha.Ha.rah	the hill country towards	H2022 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
נְתָנ֖וֹ	ne.ta.No	it permitted it	H5414 →
לָרֶ֥דֶת	la.Re.det	to go down	H3381 →
לָעֵֽמֶק׃	la.'E.mek	to the valley	H6010 →

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Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among…
leads to
- Judges 17:6
  In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 19:1
  Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
- Joshua 19:40–48
  The seventh lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Dan:
- Judges 21:25
  In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Joshua 19:47
(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…
leads to
- Judges 1:34–35
  The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
- Judges 18:1–29
  In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among…

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