Judges 1:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Sam 11:8 : 8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
  • 1 Sam 14:6 : 6 And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.
  • 1 Sam 14:10 : 10 But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.
  • 1 Sam 17:46-47 : 46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God; 47 And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.
  • 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
  • 1 Kgs 22:15 : 15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
  • Exod 23:28-29 : 28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face. 29 I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
  • Deut 9:3 : 3 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.
  • Josh 10:8-9 : 8 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you. 9 So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them. 10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah
  • Josh 11:6-8 : 6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire. 7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them. 8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

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  • Judg 1:5-11
    7 verses
    88%

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

    6 But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

    7 And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

    8 Then 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.

    9 After 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.

    10 And 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.

    11 And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    80%

    8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • Judg 1:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

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

    3 Then 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.

  • 2 Chr 13:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

    16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.

  • Judg 1:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 And 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.

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

    19 And 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 24:11
    72%

    11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

  • Judg 4:10
    72%

    10 Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

  • Judg 4:14
    71%

    14 Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.

  • 2 Chr 13:18
    71%

    18 So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    70%

    7 And 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.

  • Judg 20:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

    18 And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.

  • Judg 20:25
    70%

    25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • 1 Chr 12:24
    70%

    24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

  • Neh 9:24
    70%

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Judg 8:10
    70%

    10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

  • Josh 11:8
    69%

    8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
    69%

    11 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and went after the Philistines, attacking them till they came under Beth-car.

  • Judg 21:10
    69%

    10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

  • Judg 4:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.

    24 And the power of the children of Israel went on increasing against Jabin, king of Canaan, till he was cut off.

  • Josh 10:10
    69%

    10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

  • Num 1:26
    69%

    26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

  • 2 Kgs 14:12
    69%

    12 And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.

  • Judg 20:39
    69%

    39 The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

  • 2 Chr 25:22
    69%

    22 And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.

  • Judg 1:22
    69%

    22 And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.