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16 The descendants[a] of Hobab the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the descendants[b] of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev[c] near Arad. And they went[d] and settled with the people. 17 And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites[e] inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah. 18 Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:16 Or “sons/children”
  2. Judges 1:16 Or “sons/children”
  3. Judges 1:16 An arid region south of the Judaean hills
  4. Judges 1:16 Hebrew “he went”
  5. Judges 1:17 Hebrew “Canaanite”