Judges 1:2

Bishop's Bible

And the Lorde sayde, Iuda shall go vp: beholde, I haue deliuered the land into his handes.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord answered, “Judah is to go. I have handed the land over to him.”

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said, Yehudah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

King James Version
And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said, "Judah will go up. I hereby give the land into his hand."

English Standard Version
The Lord said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

New Century Version
The Lord said to them, "The tribe of Judah will go. I have handed the land over to them."

New English Translation
The Lord said, "The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them."

Amplified Bible
And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up [first]; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

New American Standard Bible
The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have handed the land over to him."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said, Iudah shall goe vp: behold, I haue giuen the land into his hande.

Legacy Standard Bible
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

Contemporary English Version
"Judah!" the Lord answered. "I'll help them take the land."

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said: "Y'hudah will go up; here, I have handed the land over to him."

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to the Israelites, "The tribe of Judah will go. I will let them take this land."

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hands.

Good News Translation
The Lord answered, "The tribe of Judah will go first. I am giving them control of the land."

Literal Translation
And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up. Behold, I have given the land into his hand.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE sayde: Iuda shall go vp. Beholde, I haue delyuered the londe in to his hande.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And LORD said: 'Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.'

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord sayd, Iudah shall goe vp: Behold, I haue deliuered the land into his hand.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said, Judas shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD answered, "Judah shall go up. Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide, Judas schal stie; lo! Y haue youe the lond in to hise hondis.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith, `Judah doth go up; lo, I have given the land into his hand.'

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: look, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

World English Bible
Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

New King James Version
And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up. Indeed I have delivered the land into his hand."

New Living Translation
The Lord answered, "Judah, for I have given them victory over the land."

New Life Bible
The Lord said, "Judah will go up. See, I have given the land into his hand."

New Revised Standard
The Lord said, "Judah shall go up. I hereby give the land into his hand."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said - Judah, shall go, - lo! I have delivered the land into his power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the land into his hands.

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

THE MESSAGE
And God said, "Judah will go. I've given the land to him."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."

Contextual Overview

¹ After the death of Iosuah, it came to passe, that the childre of Israel asked the Lord, saying: who shall go vp for vs against the Chanaanites, to fight fyrste against them? ² And the Lorde sayde, Iuda shall go vp: beholde, I haue deliuered the land into his handes. ³ And Iuda sayde vnto Simeon his brother: Come vp with me in my lot, that we may fight against the Chanaanites, and I likewyse will go with thee into thy lot. And so Simeon went with him. ⁴ And Iuda went vp, and the Lord deliuered the Chanaanites and Pherezites into their handes: And they slue of them in Bezek ten thousande men. ⁵ And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: And they fought against him, and slue the Chanaanites and Pherezites. ⁶ But Adonibezek fled, and they folowed after hym, caught hym, and cut of his thombes and his great toes. ⁷ And Adonibezek sayde, Three score and ten kinges hauing their thombes & great toes cut of, gathered their meate vnder my table: As I haue done, so God hath done to me agayne. And they brought him to Hierusalem, and there he died. ⁸ (The childre of Iuda had fought against Hierusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, & set the citie on fire.)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 49:8-10, Numbers 2:3, Numbers 7:12, Psalms 78:68-70, Hebrews 7:14, Revelation 5:5, Revelation 19:11-16

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:12 - Judah Judges 1:19 - the Lord Judges 20:18 - Judah Judges 20:28 - Go up 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever 1 Chronicles 5:2 - Judah 2 Chronicles 6:34 - by the way Proverbs 20:18 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.

Genesis 1:14
And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.

Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the noorth ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.

Job 26:14
Lo, this is now a short summe of his wayes: but howe litle a portion heare we of hym? who can vnderstande the thunder of his power?

Psalms 33:6
By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lorde, Euen he that created heauen, the God that made the earth & fassioned it, and set it foorth, he dyd not make it for naught, but to be inhabited, euen I the Lorde, without whom there is none other.

Nahum 2:10
Sacking, resacking, rasing, a dissolued heart and collision of knees, sorow in all loynes also, and the faces of them all as blacke as a pot.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said,.... By an articulate voice, which it is probable was the usual way of answering by Urim and Thummim:

Judah shall go up; not Judah in person, who was long ago dead, but the tribe of Judah; it was the will of the Lord that that tribe should engage first with the Canaanites, being the principal one, and the most numerous, powerful, and valiant, and perhaps had the greatest number of Canaanites among them; and who succeeding, would inspire the other tribes with courage, and fill their enemies with a panic:

behold, I have delivered the land into his hands; that part of it which belonged to that tribe as yet unsubdued, the conquest of which they are assured of for their encouragement.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said - i. e. answered by Urim and Thummim. The land was the portion which fell to Judah by lot, not the whole land of Canaan (see Judges 3:11). The priority given to Judah is a plain indication of divine direction. It points to the birth of our Lord of the tribe of Judah. Judah associated Simeon with him Judges 1:3 because their lots were intermingled Joshua 19:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 1:2. The Lord said, Judah shall go up — They had inquired of the Lord by Phinehas the high priest; and he had communicated to them the Divine counsel.