16The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms That is, Jericho with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad. 17Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them. the city. Therefore it was called Hormah. Hormah means destruction.
18Judah also took Hebrew; Septuagint Judah did not take Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron—each city with its territory.
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