Judges 1:1
Good News Translation
After Joshua's death the people of Israel asked the LORD, "Which of our tribes should be the first to go and attack the Canaanites?"

New Revised Standard Version
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Contemporary English Version
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, "Which of our tribes should attack the Canaanites first?"

New American Bible
After the death of Joshua the Israelites consulted the LORD, asking, “Who shall be first among us to attack the Canaanites and to do battle with them?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

Judges 1:1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

The acts of Judah and Simeon

4 Adonibezek justly requited

8 Jerusalem taken
10 Hebron taken
11 Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir
16 The Kenites dwell in Judah
17 Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken
21 The acts of Benjamin
22 Of the house of Joseph, who take Beth-el
30 Of Zebulun
31 Of Asher
33 Of Naphtali
34 Of Dan

now

Joshua 24:29,30 And after these things Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old: . . .

asked

Judges 20:18,28 And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader. . . .

Exodus 28:30 And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.

Numbers 27:21 If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

1 Samuel 22:9,10 And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. . . .

1 Samuel 23:9,10 Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod. . . .

Context
Conquest of Canaan Proceeds
1After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?2And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the land into his hands.…
Cross References
Numbers 27:21
If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

Judges 1:27
Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.

Judges 2:21
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:

Judges 3:1
These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Joshua 24:33
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