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Judges 1–12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The past 40 years have witnessed profound changes in the study of early Israel as the pendulum of scholarship has swung toward literary and theological readings not significantly informed by the literature of the ancient Near East. Jack M. Sasson’s commentary on the first 12 chapters of Judges is a refreshing reversal of this trend. It aims to expand comprehension of the Hebrew text by explaining...

1:9. vĕʾaḥar yārĕdû bĕnê yĕhûdâ. This verse anticipates the Judahite campaigns that will be detailed through v. 20 (perhaps also v. 21), and in it the verb yārad, “to go down,” controls the troop maneuvers that will bring the region under tribal control. The adverb ʾaḥar does not specify the length of time before the fulfillment of an act. In most cases, it occurs immediately after the preceding act, but in others the length of the interval is not relevant (for example, in Josh 2:16) or can
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