Shìshījì 1:2

2 Yēhéhuá shuō , Yóudà dāng xiān shàng qù , wǒ yǐ jiāng nà dì jiāo zaì tā shǒu zhōng .

Shìshījì 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 1:2

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.

Shìshījì 1:2 In-Context

1 Yuēshūyà sǐ hòu , Yǐsèliè rén qiú wèn Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒmen zhōngjiān shuí dāng shǒuxiān shàng qù gōngjī Jiānán rén , yǔ tāmen zhēng zhàn .

2 Yēhéhuá shuō , Yóudà dāng xiān shàng qù , wǒ yǐ jiāng nà dì jiāo zaì tā shǒu zhōng .

3 Yóudà duì tā gēge Xīmiǎn shuō , qǐng nǐ tóng wǒ dào niānjiū suǒ dé zhī dì qù , hǎo yǔ Jiānán rén zhēng zhàn . yǐhòu wǒ yĕ tóng nǐ dào nǐ niānjiū suǒ dé zhī dì qù . yúshì Xīmiǎn yǔ tā tóng qù .

4 Yóudà jiù shàng qù , Yēhéhuá jiāng Jiānán rén hé Bǐlìxǐrén jiāo zaì tāmen shǒu zhōng . tāmen zaì bǐ sè jī shā le yī wàn rén .

5 Yòu zaì nàli yùjiàn yà duō ní bǐ sè , yǔ tā zhēng zhàn , shā baì Jiānán rén hé Bǐlìxǐrén .