Judges 1:4

1:4 The men of Judah attacked, ¹  and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 1:10

1:10 The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1:16

1:16 Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Date Palm Trees to Arad in the desert of Judah, ²  located in the Negev. ³  They went and lived with the people of Judah. ⁴ 

Judges 1:18-19

1:18 The men of Judah captured Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, and the territory surrounding each of these cities. ⁵ 

1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered ⁶  the hill country, but they could not ⁷  conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. ⁸ 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Judah went up.”

[1:16]  ² tc Part of the Greek ms tradition lacks the words “of Judah.”

[1:16]  ³ tn Heb “[to] the Desert of Judah in the Negev, Arad.”

[1:16]  ⁴ tn The phrase “of Judah” is supplied here in the translation. Some ancient textual witnesses read, “They went and lived with the Amalekites.” This reading, however, is probably influenced by 1 Sam 15:6 (see also Num 24:20-21).

[1:18]  ³ tn Heb “The men of Judah captured Gaza and its surrounding territory, Ashkelon and its surrounding territory, and Ekron and its surrounding territory.”

[1:19]  ⁴ tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”

[1:19]  ⁵ tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.

[1:19]  ⁶ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.