After the death of Joshua] This joins the beginning of Judges to the end of Joshua; but in what follows the author refers to events which must have preceded the partition of Joshua 13 f., and the campaigns of Joshua 10:11. Asked the lord] Consulted the oracle of the Lord': cp. Judges 18:5; Judges 20:18. See also Exodus 28:30; Numbers 27:21.
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Judges 1:1
1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?