Judges 1:8

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.

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  • Josh 15:63 : 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
  • Judg 1:21 : 21 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.

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  • Judg 1:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

    10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • Jer 34:22
    76%

    22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, 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 inhabitant.

  • Judg 1:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

    5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  • Jer 39:8
    76%

    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 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.

  • Amos 2:5
    76%

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

  • Judg 1:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

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

    18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

    19 Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

  • Judg 20:48
    74%

    48 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

  • Jer 44:6
    74%

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

  • Josh 8:8
    73%

    8 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you."

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    73%

    19 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

  • Zech 12:6
    73%

    6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

  • Num 31:10
    73%

    10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    73%

    4 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    73%

    9 He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    72%

    8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jer 21:10
    72%

    10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: 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 which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:

    2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, 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 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.

  • Jer 39:1
    72%

    1 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

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

    15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

    16 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 its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

  • Ezek 9:7
    72%

    7 He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.

  • Amos 1:14
    72%

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

  • Jer 9:11
    72%

    11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Judg 18:27
    72%

    27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

  • Jer 52:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

    14 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 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jer 34:7
    71%

    7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.

  • 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 a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

  • Jer 33:4
    71%

    4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Lam 5:11
    71%

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

  • Judg 1:2
    71%

    2 Yahweh 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 on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Sam 30:3
    71%

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

  • Judg 9:45
    71%

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