Judges Chapter 1 verse 18 Holy Bible
Also Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof.
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Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.
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Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ash'kelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
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Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
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Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Askelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.
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Also Judah took Gaza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and Ekron with the border of it.
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And Judah captureth Gaza and its border, and Askelon and its border, and Ekron and its border;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Gaza, etc. Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron, were all cities of the Philistines. But though Judah took these cities, it seems he was not able permanently to expel the inhabitants.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Took Gaza . . . Askelon . . . Ekron.--Three of the five Philistian lordships, to which the LXX. add Ashdod (Azotus). In Joshua 13:3 these five townships are mentioned as still unconquered, and here the LXX. put in a negative--"Judah did not inherit Gaza, nor," &c. St. Augustine had the same reading. It is, however, possible that "not" may have been conjecturally added because of the apparent discrepancy between this passage and Judges 3:8; or, again, "did not inherit" may be a sort of explanatory gloss on the "took." Josephus (Antt. v. 2, ? 4) says that Askelon and Ashdod were taken in the war, but that Gaza and Ekron escaped, because their situation in the plains enabled them to use their chariots; yet in 3, ? 1, he says that the Canaanites re-conquered Askelon and Ekron. In any case, the conquest was very transitory. (See Joshua 11:22; Judges 3:3; Judges 3:13 seq.)