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The Fight Against the Canaanites

Now it happened after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel (A)asked of [a]Yahweh, saying, “Who shall go up first for us (B)against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:1 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15

21 (A)I also will no longer dispossess before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to (B)test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk in it as their fathers [a]did, or not.”

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  1. Judges 2:22 Lit kept