to catch (in a net · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Gaza
עַזָּ֣ה'a.Zah
H5804
Azzah · proper noun, a place name
coast
גְּבוּלָ֔הּge.vu.Lah
H1366
properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Askelon
אַשְׁקְל֖וֹן'ash.ke.Lon
H831
Ashkelon · proper noun, a place name
coast
גְּבוּלָ֑הּge.vu.Lah
H1366
properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Ekron
עֶקְר֖וֹןek.Ron
H6138
Ekron · proper noun, a place name
coast
גְּבוּלָֽהּge.vu.Lah
H1366
properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Ba…
Exodus 23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the…
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistine…
Judges 16:1-2 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in t…
1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ask…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Judges 1:9-20
We have here a further account of that glorious and successful campaign which Judah and Simeon made. 1. The lot of Judah was pretty well cleared of the Canaanites, yet not thoroughly. Those that dwelt in the mountain (the mountains that were round about Jerusalem) were driven out (Jdg 1:9, Jdg 1:19), but those in the valley kept their ground against them, having chariots of iron, such as we read of, Jos 17:16. Here the men of Judah failed, and thereby spoiled the influence which otherwise their example hitherto might have had on the rest of the tribes, who followed them in this instance of their cowardice, rather than in all the other instances of their courage. They had iron chariots, and t…
And Judah went with Simeon his brother--The course of the narrative is here resumed from Jdg 1:9, and an account given of Judah returning the services of Simeon (Jdg 1:3), by aiding in the prosecution of the war within the neighboring tribes.
slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath--or Zephathah (Ch2 14:10), a valley lying in the southern portion of Canaan.
Hormah--destroyed in fulfilment of an early vow of the Israelites (see on Num 21:2). The confederate tribes, pursuing their incursions in that quarter, came successively to Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, which they took. But the Philistines seem soon to have regained possession of these cities.
John Gill on Judges 1:18
Also Judah took Gaza, with the coast thereof,.... Which by lot fell to that tribe, Joshua 15:47; it was not till now subdued:
and Ashkelon with the coast thereof; which, according to our countryman Sandys (q), was ten miles from Gaza:
and Ekron with the coast thereof; this also is the lot that fell to Judah, but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, Joshua 15:45; for whom Judah now fought and took it; but in a short time all these places were retaken, and possessed by the Philistines, and were three of their five principalities which they ever after retained, see Judges 3:3.
(q) Travels, p. 118. Ed. 5.
Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 1:17-21
The Church Fathers
But Judah did not conquer Gaza and its district, nor Ascalón and its district, nor Accarón and its region, nor Azoto and its region. And the Lord was with Judah. And he conquered the mountain, because he could not conquer the inhabitants of the valley, because Rekab confronted them and had iron chariots. When discussing in the book of Joshua Nave the passage that says: And the Lord gave Israel all the earth, (Jos 21,43 41) when many of its regions still did not possess them, I said that the fact that they had been given all the land could be understood in the sense that the land that was not given them in possession, was given them as a test. This appears here much more clearly, since the cities are mentioned that Judah could not conquer, and, nevertheless, it is said that the Lord was with Judah. He conquered the mountain, because they could not conquer the inhabitants of the valley. Who does not understand, therefore, that this also has something to do with the fact that the Lord was with Judah, so that he would not be arrogant, suddenly getting all the territory? With respect to what follows: For Rekab confronted them and had iron chariots it has been said that he feared the chariots, but not the Lord who was in Judah, but the tribe of Judah itself. If we inquire why Judah was afraid, with whom the Lord was, we should interpret prudently that God, even being propitious, destroys even in the hearts of his people the superabundance of excessive prosperity to turn enemies to their own advantage, not only when the enemies are defeated, but also when they are feared: the first, to reveal the divine generosity; the second, to suppress human pride. Because, evidently, the enemy of the saints is the angel of Satan, who, as the Apostle says, was given to him to slap him, so that he would not be enraged by the magnitude of the revelations (Cf 2Co 12,7).
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Agag — Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian. (1.) A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus. (2.) Another king…
Ashkelon — =Askelon=Ascalon, was one of the five cities of the Philistines (Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:17). It stood on the shore of the Mediterranean, 12 miles north of Gaza. It is mentioned on an inscription at…
Ekron — Firm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, about 11 miles north of Gath. It was assigned to Judah (Josh. 13:3), and afterwards to Dan (19:43), but…
Gaza — Called also Azzah, which is its Hebrew name (Deut. 2:23; 1 Kings 4:24; Jer. 25:20), strong, a city on the Mediterranean shore, remarkable for its early importance as the chief centre of a great…
Philistines — (Gen. 10:14, R.V.; but in A.V., “Philistim”), a tribe allied to the Phoenicians. They were a branch of the primitive race which spread over the whole district of the Lebanon and the valley of the…
Ashkelon · General references — General references
Canaanites · Not expelled — Not expelled
Canaanites, The · Partially subdued by Israel — Partially subdued by Israel
Ekron · Conquered and allotted to — Conquered and allotted to
Gaza · .Allotted to — .Allotted to
Judah · .Commissioned by God to lead in the conquest of the promised land — .Commissioned by God to lead in the conquest of the promised land
Judah, The Tribe Of
Remaining Conquests of the Combined Tribes of Judah and Simeon. - Jdg 1:17.
Zephath was in the territory of Simeon. This is evident not only from the fact that Hormah (Zephath) had been allotted to the tribe of Simeon (compare Jos 19:4 with Jos 15:30), but also from the words, "Judah went with Simeon his brother," which point back to Jdg 1:3, and express the thought that Judah went with Simeon into his territory to drive out the Canaanites who were still to be found there. Going southwards from Debir, Judah and Simeon smote the Canaanites at Zephath on the southern boundary of Canaan, and executed the ban upon this town, from which it received the name of Hormah, i.e., banning. The town has…
From the city of dates. This refers to Yericho, as the fertile tract of Yericho17An area outside the city, measuring five hundred amohs by five hundred amohs. (Yalkut, 38.) was given to them for their consumption until the Beis HaMikdosh would be built. The one in whose portion the Beis HaMikdosh would be built18The tribe of Binyomin. (Ibid). would then receive it,19In return for the Beis Hamikdosh territory, which would become the property of all the tribes. so that all of Yisroel could share in the Beis HaMikdosh. It was given to the descendants of Yisro for four hundred and forty years.20From the conquest of Eretz Yisroel by Yehoshua, until the construction of the Beis Hamikdosh by King S…
· First and most vigorous in driving out the Canaanites
— First and most vigorous in driving out the Canaanites
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
