Judges 1:34

34 The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.

Judges 1:34 in Other Translations

34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

ESV

34 The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.

NLT

34 As for the tribe of Dan, the Amorites forced them back into the hill country and would not let them come down into the plains.

MSG

34 The Amorites pushed the people of Dan up into the hills and wouldn't let them down on the plains.

CSB

34 The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to go down into the valley.

Judges 1:34 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 1:34

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the
mountain
Into the mountainous part of the tribe of Dan; the most noted mountains in it were Sear and Baalah, which lay on the border of Judah, ( Joshua 15:10 Joshua 15:11 ) ; Joppa in this tribe was built on an high rock, and so Gibbethon, as its name seems to import, perhaps was built on a hill or mountain, as were the cities after mentioned:

for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;
which lay between Joppa and Caesarea, the plain of Sharon, in which were Lydda, Jamnia which belonged to their tribe, and they afterwards enjoyed; (See Gill on Joshua 19:48).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Judges 1:34 In-Context

32 The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out.

33 Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.

34 The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.

35 And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

36 The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.

Cross References 3

1. Numbers 13:29; Judges 10:11; 1 Samuel 7:14; Exodus 3:17
2. S Genesis 30:6
3. Judges 18:1