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Judges Chapter 1 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Judges 1:8

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.
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BBE Judges 1:8

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.
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DARBY Judges 1:8

And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
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KJV Judges 1:8

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.
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WBT Judges 1:8

(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.)
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WEB Judges 1:8

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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YLT Judges 1:8

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;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Read Fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it. It is the continuation of the narrative of the exploits of Judah and Simeon in conquering their respective lots.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Now.--Rather, And.Had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it.--Our version here most unwarrantably interpolates the word "had," meaning it perhaps as a sort of explanatory gloss to imply that the conquest took place before the fact mentioned in the last verse. If we are right in supposing that these chapters refer in greater or less detail to events already touched upon in the Book of Joshua, we must then supplement this brief notice by Joshua 12:8-10; Joshua 15:63, from which it appears that though the people of Jerusalem were slaughtered, the king conquered, and the city burnt, yet the Jebusites either secured the citadel (as Josephus implies) or succeeded in recovering the city. In Judges 19:11-12, the city is called Jebus (with the remark, "which is Jerusalem"), and the Levite expressly refuses to enter it, because it is a "city of the Jebusites," "the city of a stranger."With the edge of the sword.--Literally, with the mouth of the sword (Genesis 34:26; Joshua 8:24; Joshua 10:28. Comp. Judges 4:15; Judges 20:37). It seems to mean that no quarter was given. . . .