Judges 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and taken it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, captured it, struck it down with the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the children{H1121} of Judah{H3063} fought{H3898} against Jerusalem,{H3389} and took{H3920} it, and smote{H5221} it with the edge{H6310} of the sword,{H2719} and set{H7971} the city{H5892} on fire.{H784}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Now the children{H1121} of Judah{H3063} had fought{H3898}{(H8735)} against Jerusalem{H3389}, and had taken{H3920}{(H8799)} it, and smitten{H5221}{(H8686)} it with the edge{H6310} of the sword{H2719}, and set{H7971}{(H8765)} the city{H5892} on fire{H784}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But ye childre of Iuda foughte agaynst Ierusalem, and wane it, and smote it with the edge of the swerde, and set fyre vpon the cite.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    (Nowe the children of Iudah had fought against Ierusalem, and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sworde, and had set the citie on fire.)

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    (The childre of Iuda had fought against Hierusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, & set the citie on fire.)

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the sons of Judah fight against Jerusalem, and capture it, and smite it by the mouth of the sword, and the city they have sent into fire;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 15:63 : 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.
  • Judg 1:21 : 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 1:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

    10 And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron, (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba) and they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • Jer 34:22
    76%

    22 Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

  • Judg 1:4-5
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    76%

    4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they killed in Bezek ten thousand men.

    5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek, and they fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  • Jer 39:8
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    8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 37:8
    76%

    8 And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire.'

  • Amos 2:5
    76%

    5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

  • Judg 1:17-19
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    75%

    17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they killed the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it; and the name of the city was called Hormah.

    18 Also Judah took Gaza with its territory, and Askelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

    19 And the LORD was with Judah, and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

  • Judg 20:48
    74%

    48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the men of every city, and the beasts, and all that came to hand; also they set on fire all the cities they came to.

  • Jer 44:6
    74%

    6 Therefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

  • Josh 8:8
    73%

    8 And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the commandment of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    73%

    19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

  • Zech 12:6
    73%

    6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people around about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

  • Num 31:10
    73%

    10 And they burned all their cities where they dwelt, and all their fortified castles, with fire.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    73%

    4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    73%

    9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    72%

    8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 21:10
    72%

    10 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  • Jer 34:1-2
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    72%

    1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,

    2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

  • Josh 6:24
    72%

    24 And they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 39:1
    72%

    1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

  • 2 Chr 13:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Then the men of Judah shouted: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

    16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15 You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Ezek 9:7
    72%

    7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • Amos 1:14
    72%

    14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

  • Jer 9:11
    72%

    11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • Judg 18:27
    72%

    27 And they took what Micah had made, and the priest he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

  • Jer 52:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire:

    14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    71%

    5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jer 34:7
    71%

    7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 28:17
    71%

    17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

  • 1 Sam 30:14
    71%

    14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongs to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

  • Jer 33:4
    71%

    4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

  • Lam 5:11
    71%

    11 They ravished the women in Zion, the young women in the cities of Judah.

  • Judg 1:2
    71%

    2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

  • 2 Chr 13:18
    71%

    18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

  • 1 Sam 30:3
    71%

    3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

  • Judg 9:45
    71%

    45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, killed the people who were in it, and tore down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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