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34 Then the [a]Amorites forced the sons of Dan [back] into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the valley; 35 yet the Amorites persisted in living on Mount Heres (the mountain of the sun), in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but when the power of the house (descendants) of Joseph became strong and prevailed, they became forced labor. 36 The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from [b]Sela (rock) and upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:34 Like the other Canaanites, the Amorites probably had iron chariots with which they controlled the valley.
  2. Judges 1:36 Some scholars identify Sela with Petra in modern day Jordan.

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