| Judges 1:8
| And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put it to the sword, and set the whole city on fire.
| Jerusalem. This city was divided into two; one part was called Jebus, the other Salem; the one was in the tribe of Juda, the other in the tribe of Benjamin. After it was taken and burnt by the men of Juda, it was quickly rebuilt again by the Jebusites, as we may gather from ver. 21, and continued in their possession till it was taken by king David. (Challoner) --- Fire. They treated it with such severity, because it seems to have revolted, (Serarius) though the text of Josue 10:25 only says that the king was slain. But [in] (Josue 15:63., and here) ver. 21., it is said, that the children of Juda and of Benjamin dwelt along with the Jebusites.
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