Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 1:17

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 1:17 - 1:17

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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 (2Ch 14:10), a valley lying in the southern portion of Canaan.

Hormah - destroyed in fulfillment 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.