Judges 1:34
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New International Version (©2011)
The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As for the tribe of Dan, the Amorites forced them back into the hill country and would not let them come down into the plains.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the valley;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to go down into the valley.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Later on, the Amorites forced the descendants of Dan into the hill country and did not permit them to come into the valleys of the hills.

NET Bible (©2006)
The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The Amorites forced the tribe of Dan into the mountains and would not let them come down into the valley.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not allow them to come down to the valley:

American King James Version
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

American Standard Version
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not place to go down to the plain:

Darby Bible Translation
The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;

English Revised Version
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan to the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

World English Bible
The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

Young's Literal Translation
And the Amorites press the sons of Dan to the mountain, for they have not suffered them to go down to the valley;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:21-36 The people of Israel were very careless of their duty and interest. Owing to slothfulness and cowardice, they would not be at the pains to complete their conquests. It was also owing to their covetousness: they were willing to let the Canaanites live among them, that they might make advantage of them. They had not the dread and detestation of idolatry they ought to have had. The same unbelief that kept their fathers forty years out of Canaan, kept them now out of the full possession of it. Distrust of the power and promise of God deprived them of advantages, and brought them into troubles. Thus many a believer who begins well is hindered. His graces languish, his lusts revive, Satan plies him with suitable temptations, the world recovers its hold; he brings guilt into his conscience, anguish into his heart, discredit on his character, and reproach on the gospel. Though he may have sharp rebukes, and be so recovered that he does not perish, yet he will have deeply to lament his folly through his remaining days; and upon his dying bed to mourn over the opportunities of glorifying God and serving the church he has lost. We can have no fellowship with the enemies of God within us or around us, but to our hurt; therefore our only wisdom is to maintain unceasing war against them.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain,.... Into the mountainous part of the tribe of Dan; the most noted mountains in it were Sear and Baalah, which lay on the border of Judah, Joshua 15:10; Joppa in this tribe was built on an high rock, and so Gibbethon, as its name seems to import, perhaps was built on a hill or mountain, as were the cities after mentioned:

for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley; which lay between Joppa and Caesarea, the plain of Sharon, in which were Lydda, Jamnia, &c. which belonged to their tribe, and they afterwards enjoyed; See Gill on Joshua 19:48.

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Places Not Conquered
…33Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelled among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries to them. 34And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 35But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

Judges 1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.
Judges 1:35 And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.