Judges 1:34 - Tree of Life Version But the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not let them come down to the valley. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Amorites forced the Danites back into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the plain; American Standard Version (1901) And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley; Common English Bible The Amorites pushed the people of Dan back into the highlands because they wouldn’t allow them to come down to the plain. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Amorite hemmed in the sons of Dan on the mountain, and did not give them a place, so that they might descend to the flatlands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not place to go down to the plain. |
The territory of the children of Dan slipped away from them, so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem and captured it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, possessed it and settled in it, and called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanites dwelling in the land, though the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.
Also the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon and in Shaalbim, but when the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, they became forced labor for them.
In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the tribe of Dan was seeking an inheritance for itself to settle in, for to that day no territory had fallen to them for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.