Judges 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 15:63 : 63 And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
  • Judg 1:21 : 21 And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.

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  • Judg 1:9-10
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    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.

  • Jer 34:22
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    22 See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.

  • Judg 1:4-5
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    4 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.

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

  • Jer 39:8
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    8 And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.

  • Jer 37:8
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    8 And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.

  • Amos 2:5
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    5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

  • Judg 1:17-19
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    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.

  • Judg 20:48
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    48 And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

  • Jer 44:6
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    6 Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

  • Josh 8:8
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    8 And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
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    19 And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

  • Zech 12:6
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    6 In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.

  • Num 31:10
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    10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

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

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
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    9 And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

  • Jer 21:10
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    10 For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.

  • Jer 34:1-2
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    1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,

    2 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:

  • Josh 6:24
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    24 Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

  • Jer 39:1
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    1 And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;

  • 2 Chr 13:15-16
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    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.

  • Deut 13:15
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    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • Ezek 9:7
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    7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

  • Amos 1:14
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    14 And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:

  • Jer 9:11
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    11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

  • Judg 18:27
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    27 And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.

  • Jer 52:13-14
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    13 And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

    14 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • Jer 34:7
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    7 When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 28:17
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    17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

  • 1 Sam 30:14
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    14 We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.

  • Jer 33:4
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    4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

  • Lam 5:11
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    11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

  • Judg 1:2
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    2 And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.

  • 2 Chr 13:18
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:3
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    3 And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

  • Judg 9:45
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    45 And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.