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Judges 1 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Judges 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 36
- verses
- 529 / 184
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Judges 1 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָשַׁב | yâshab | H3427 | 27 | sit, dwell |
| כְּנַעַנִי | Kᵉnaʻanîy | H3669 | 14 | Kenaanite, pedlar |
| יָרַשׁ | yârash | H3423 | 12 | occupy, driving |
| אֲדֹנִי־בֶזֶק | ʼĂdônîy-Bezeq | H137 | 6 | Adoni-Bezek |
| יְהוּדָה | Yᵉhûwdâh | H3063 | 11 | Jehudah |
| עִיר | ʻîyr | H5892 | 9 | city, waking |
| כָּלֵב | Kâlêb | H3612 | 5 | Caleb |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Judges 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The people of Israel were very careless of their duty and interest. Owing to slothfulness and cowardice, they would not be at the pains to complete their conquests. It was also owing to their covetousness: they were willing to let the Canaanites live among them, that they might make advantage of them. They had not the dread and detestation of idolatry they ought to have had. The same unbelief that kept their fathers forty years out of Canaan, kept them now out of the full possession of it. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 1:21–36 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Hebron — Judg 1:10
- Debir 1 — Judg 1:11
- Gulloth-mayim — Judg 1:15
- Lower Gulloth — Judg 1:15
- Negeb — Judg 1:15
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