Judges 1:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.

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  • Josh 11:22 : 22 Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.
  • Judg 3:3 : 3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:
  • Judg 16:1-2 : 1 Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her. 2 And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.
  • Judg 16:21 : 21 So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
  • 1 Sam 6:17 : 17 Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;
  • Josh 13:3 : 3 From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;
  • Josh 15:45-47 : 45 Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; 46 From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places. 47 Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

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  • Judg 1:19
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    19And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron.

  • Josh 15:45-48
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    76%

    45Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;

    46From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

    47Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.

    48And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;

  • 2 Chr 28:17-18
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    75%

    17For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

    18And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

  • Judg 1:8-10
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    8Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

    9After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

    10And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

  • Zeph 2:4
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    4For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

  • Judg 1:17
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    17And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.

  • Josh 10:41
    74%

    41Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
    74%

    8He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

  • Judg 1:2-5
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    72%

    2And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.

    3Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.

    4And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.

    5And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  • Zech 9:5
    72%

    5Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.

  • Amos 1:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.

    7And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:

    8Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.

  • Josh 13:3
    71%

    3From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

  • 2 Chr 11:9-10
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    71%

    9And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah

    10And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

  • Jer 25:20
    71%

    20And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

  • 2 Chr 12:4
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    4And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

  • Josh 15:21
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    21The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur;

  • Gen 10:19
    70%

    19Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

  • 1 Chr 7:28
    70%

    28Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

  • Josh 15:11-12
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    69%

    11And out to the side of Ekron to the north: then it is marked out to Shikkeron and on to Mount Baalah, ending at Jabneel; the end of the line is at the sea.

    12And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great Sea. This is the line going round the land marked out for the children of Judah, by their families.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
    69%

    6He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • Judg 6:4
    69%

    4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

  • Josh 19:43-46
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    69%

    43And Elon and Timnah and Ekron

    44And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

    45And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;

    46And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
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    19And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

  • Jer 47:1
    68%

    1The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    68%

    7And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

  • 1 Chr 6:68
    68%

    68And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,

  • Deut 2:23
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    23And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)

  • Neh 11:30
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    30Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

  • Josh 15:1
    68%

    1Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.

  • Josh 11:22
    68%

    22Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.

  • Josh 7:16
    67%

    16So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;

  • Josh 15:58
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    58Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;