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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
THE BOOK OF JUDGES
This Book is called JUDGES, because it contains the history of whatpassed under the government of the judges, who ruled Israel before theyhad kings. The writer of it, according to the more general opinion, wasthe prophet Samuel.
Judges Chapter 1
The expedition and victory of Juda against the Chanaanites: who aretolerated in many places.
1:1. After the death of Josue, the children of Israel consulted theLord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, andshall be the leader of the war?
1:2. And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered theland into his hands.
1:3. And Juda said to Simeon, his brother: Come up with me into my lot,and fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go along with theeinto thy lot. And Simeon went with him.
1:4. And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and thePherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousandmen.
1:5. And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, andthey defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.
1:6. And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, andcut off his fingers and toes.
1:7. And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toescut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I havedone, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, andhe died there.
1:8. And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put itto the sword, and set the whole city on fire.
Jerusalem… This city was divided into two; one part was called Jebus,the other Salem: the one was in the tribe of Juda, the other in thetribe of Benjamin. After it was taken and burnt by the men of Juda, itwas quickly rebuilt again by the Jebusites, as we may gather from ver.21; and continued in their possession till it was taken by king David.
1:9. And afterwards they went down and fought against the Chanaanite,who dwelt in the mountains, and in the south, and in the plains.
1:10. And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt inHebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai,and Ahiman, and Tholmai:
Hebron… This expedition against Hebron, etc. is the same as isrelated, Jos. 15.24. It is here repeated, to give the reader at once ashort sketch of all the achievements of the tribe of Juda against theChanaanites.
1:11. And departing from thence, he went to the inhabitants of Dabir,the ancient name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that