Judges 1:26
24 and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”
25 So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.
And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
27 At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
28 When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
- KJV
- And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
- WEB
- The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
- ASV
- And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day.
- DARBY
- And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
- BLB
- And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and he called its name Luz; that [is] its name to this day.
- ÅB
- Og mannen dro til hetittenes land, og han bygget en by og kalte den Luz; det navn har den hatt til denne dag.
- OTB
- Mannen dro deretter til hetittenes land, bygde en by, og kalte den Luz, som fortsatt er navnet den dag i dag.
- B1930
- Og mannen drog til hetittenes land, og han bygget en by og kalte den Luz; det navn har den hatt til denne dag.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
Read in context2 Chronicles 1:17
A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
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