Judges 1:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Then the people of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it. They put it to the sword and set the city on fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the men of Judah fought against [Jebusite] Jerusalem and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Common English Bible

⁸ The people of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They killed its people with their swords and set the city on fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Then the sons of Judah, besieging Jerusalem, seized it. And they struck it with edge of the sword, delivering the entire city to be burned.

Judges 1:8 Cross References

Joshua 15:63

But the people of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1:21

But the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived in Jerusalem among the Benjaminites to this day.

Judges 1:9

Afterward the people of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.