17 But Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it, and called the name of the city (A)Hormah.

18 Also Judah took [a]Gaza with the coasts thereof, and Ashkelon with the coasts thereof, and Ekron with the coasts thereof.

19 And the Lord was with Judah, and he possessed the mountains: for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valleys, because they had chariots of iron.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:18 These cities and others were afterward possessed of the Philistines, 1 Sam. 6:17.

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