After Joshua’s death Israel asks who will lead against the Canaanites, and Judah goes up first with some success, capturing Jerusalem and the hill country. But tribe after tribe fails to drive out the inhabitants of the land, settling instead for coexistence and forced labor. This incomplete obedience plants the seed of every trouble that follows.
Judges study chapter
Judges 1
c. 1375 BCAfter Joshua’s death the tribes fight the Canaanites with only partial success, failing to drive many of them out.
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