Archives for October 2021

“Kalev said: ‘To whoever overpowers Kiryat-Sefer and captures it I will give my daughter ‘Akhsah as his wife.’ Otni’el the son of K’naz, Kalev’s younger brother, captured it; so he gave him ‘Akhsah his daughter as his wife.  After becoming his wife, she persuaded him to ask her father to give them a field; when she […]

“Y’hudah also attacked the Kena‘ani living in Hevron (formerly called Kiryat-Arba), and they overpowered Sheshai, Achiman and Talmai.  From there they attacked the inhabitants of D’vir (D’vir was formerly called Kiryat-Sefer).”-Judges 1:10-11 Verse 10 tells us Judah and Simeon launched an attack against Hebron. Interestingly, Hebron also went by the name KIRYAT-ARBA. In those days, […]

Let’s tackle what might seem to be a contradiction in the text of Judges Chapter 1. So we just read how the tribes of Judah and Simeon captured Jerusalem, right? However, a couple of sentences later, we find this tidbit in verse 21. “The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living […]

“They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him. They killed the Kena‘ani and the P’rizi, but Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Adoni-Bezek said: “Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered food under my table; God has paid me […]

“Y’hudah went up; and Adonai gave the Kena‘ani and the P’rizi into their hands; of those in Bezek they killed ten thousand men.”-Judges 1:4 Alrighty, let’s jump right into our text study, shall we? We’ve got some awesome stuff here. And by the way, for those who have followed me from the beginning, a word […]