Judges 1:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ The people of Judah went with the people of Simeon, and together they defeated the Canaanites who lived in the city of Zephath. They put a curse on the city, destroyed it, and named it Hormah.^{[a] 18-19} The Lord helped the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they did not capture^[b] Gaza, Ashkelon, or Ekron, with their surrounding territories. These people living along the coast had iron chariots, and so the people of Judah were not able to drive them out.