Judges 1:34
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
Judges 1:34 in other translations
| BSB | The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain. |
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| WEB | The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; |
| 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; |
| YLT | And the Amorites press the sons of Dan to the mountain, for they have not suffered them to go down to the valley; |
| DARBY | And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country, for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley. |
| BBE | And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley; |
| Webster | And the Amorites forced the children of Dan to the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: |
What does Judges 1:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 1:17-36
17-29. And Judah went with Simeon his brother--The course of the narrative is here resumed from Jud 1:9, and an account given of Judah returning the services of Simeon (Jud 1:3), by aiding in the prosecution of the war within the neighboring tribes. slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath--or Zephathah (2Ch 14:10), a valley lying in the southern portion of Canaan. Hormah--destroyed in fulfilment of an early vow…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 1:21-36
The people of Israel were very careless of their duty and interest. Owing to slothfulness and cowardice, they would not be at the pains to complete their conquests. It was also owing to their covetousness: they were willing to let the Canaanites live among them, that they might make advantage of them. They had not the dread and detestation of idolatry they ought to have had. The same unbelief that kept their fathers…
Judges 1:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 1:34
- Joshua 19:47
And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
- Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
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Context
- Judges 1:33
Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth–anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh and of Beth–anath became tributaries unto them.
- Judges 1:34
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
- Judges 1:35
But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
Judges 1:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los Amorrheos apretaron á los hijos de Dan hasta el monte; que no los dejaron descender á la campiña. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les Amoréens repoussèrent dans la montagne les fils de Dan, car ils ne leur permirent pas de descendre dans la vallée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Amoriter drängten die Kinder Dan ins Gebirge, denn sie gestatteten ihnen nicht, in die Niederung herabzukommen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Arctavitque Amorrhæus filios Dan in monte, nec dedit eis locum ut ad planiora descenderent: |