“He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 1 contains 36 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.