Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:27
Beth-shean - Called by the Septuagint Σκυθωνπολις , Scythopolis, or the city of the Scythians. On these towns see the notes, Joshua 17:12-13 ; (note). read more
士師記 1:27-36 Rcuvts
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:29
Neither did Ephraim - See the notes on the parallel passages, Joshua 16:5-10 ; (note). read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:30
Neither did Zebulun drive out - See on Joshua 19:10-15 ; (note). read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:31
Neither did Asher - See on Joshua 19:24-31 ; (note). Accho - Supposed to be the city of Ptolemais, near to Mount Carmel. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:33
Neither did Naphtali - See the notes on Joshua 19:32-39 ; (note). read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:34
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. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:35
The Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres - They perhaps agreed to dwell in the mountainous country, being unable to maintain themselves on the plain, and yet were so powerful that the Danites could not totally expel them; they were, however, laid under tribute, and thus the house of Joseph had the sovereignty. The Septuagint have sought out a literal meaning for the names of several of these places, and they render the verse thus: "And the Amorites began to dwell in the mount of... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:36
Akrabbim - Of scorpions; probably so called from the number of those animals in that place. From the rock , and upward - The Vulgate understands by סלע sela , a rock, the city Petra, which was the capital of Arabia Petraea. The whole of this chapter appears to be designed as a sort of supplement to those places in the book of Joshua which are referred to in the notes and in the margin; nor is there any thing in it worthy of especial remark. We everywhere see the same fickle... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 1:31
Compare the marginal reference. Accho, afterward called Ptolemais, now Akka or St. Jean d’Acre, is named here for the first time. read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 1:36
And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim ,.... Of which See Gill on Numbers 34:4 and See Gill on Joshua 15:3 , from the rock, and upwards ; even from the city Petra in Idumea, and beyond that; and there was a country near Idumea, called Acrabatane, from this mountain Akrabbim,"Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.'... read more