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Jueces 1:8
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Y hab�an combatido los hijos de Jud� � Jerusalem, y la hab�an tomado, y metido � cuchillo, y puesto � fuego la ciudad.
Y hab�an combatido los hijos de Jud� a Jerusal�n, y la hab�an tomado, y herido a filo de espada, y puesto a fuego la ciudad.
Ya hab�an combatido los hijos de Jud� a Jerusal�n, y la hab�an tomado, y metido a cuchillo, y puesto a fuego la ciudad.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Judges 1:21, Joshua 15:63
Reciprocal: Joshua 15:8 - the Jebusite Joshua 18:16 - Jebusi Judges 19:10 - Jebus 2 Samuel 5:6 - Jerusalem
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it,.... Which accounted for their carrying Adonibezek thither. This they had done in the times of Joshua; for when the king of that place was taken and slain by Joshua, it seems that he and Israel went and fought against the city, and took that in which the tribe of Judah had a principal concern; so Kimchi and Ben Gersom interpret it; but Jarchi and Abarbinel are of opinion, that now from Bezek they went up to Jerusalem, and fought against it, and took it; and so others think, because only the children of Judah are mentioned, and not all Israel, who fought together in Joshua's time; nor is there any mention made of its being taken in his time, and yet it seems plain that it was inhabited in part by the children of Judah, Joshua 15:63; some therefore have thought that it was twice taken; that after Joshua had taken it, he and the children of Israel being employed in making conquests in other parts of the land, the Jebusites repossessed it, from whence they were now again in part driven, not wholly; and Josephus says k, the lower part was taken, and all the inhabitants killed, but the upper part was hard to be taken, because of the strength of the walls, and the nature of the place:
and smitten it with the edge of the sword; the "inhabitants of it", so far as they got possession of it:
and set the city on fire; some part of it only, for in some part of it dwelt the children of Judah, and in another part the Jebusites.
k Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 2.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Render “and the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it,” etc. With regard to the capture of Jerusalem there is some obscurity. It is here said to have been taken, smitten with the edge of the sword, and burned, by the children of Judah. In Joshua 12:8, Joshua 12:10 the Jebusite and the king of Jerusalem are enumerated among Joshua’s conquests, but without any distinct mention of the capture of the city; and in the marginal reference we read that the Jebusites were not expelled from Jerusalem, but dwelt with the children of Judah (compare Judges 1:21). Further, we learn from Judges 19:10-12 that Jerusalem was wholly a Jebusite city in the lifetime of Phinehas Judges 20:28, and so it continued until the reign of David 2 Samuel 5:6-9. The conclusion is that Jerusalem was only taken once, namely, at the time here described, and that this was in the lifetime of Joshua; but that the children of Judah did not occupy it in sufficient force to prevent the return of the Jebusites, who gradually recovered complete possession.
Set the city on fire - A phrase found only at Judges 20:48; 2 Kings 8:12, and Psalms 74:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 1:8. Had fought against Jerusalem — We read this verse in a parenthesis, because we suppose that it refers to the taking of this city by Joshua; for as he had conquered its armies and slew its king, Joshua 10:26, it is probable that he took the city: yet we find that the Jebusites still dwelt in it, Joshua 15:63; and that the men of Judah could not drive them out, which probably refers to the strong hold or fortress on Mount Zion, which the Jebusites held till the days of David, who took it, and totally destroyed the Jebusites. See 2 Samuel 5:6-9, and 1 Chronicles 11:4-8. It is possible that the Jebusites who had been discomfited by Joshua, had again become sufficiently strong to possess themselves of Jerusalem; and that they were now defeated, and the city itself set on fire: but that they still were able to keep possession of their strong fort on Mount Zion, which appears to have been the citadel of Jerusalem.
