Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Hi Lee,

you wrote:
> My understanding of  x-qatal causes me to lean toward one march, not two.
> Or, to put it another way, v.9 is a campaign, and v. 10 is one march in
the
> campaign.  I would translate vv. 9-10 paraphrastically "Aftward, when the
> Judahites went south to make war on the Canaanites living in the
highlands,
> the Negev, and the Shephelah, they marched against the Canaanites in
> Hebron...."

I think your interpretation and translation are correct.  The fronting of
the temporal adverb 'axar is used to aid in the transition to a new time. 
The qatal verb form is attributive, so I would translate "It was afterwards
that the children of Judah were-descenders-to-fight ..."  It is a statement
(i.e., information) about the time and characters in the following section
rather than a representation of an event.  The first event in this section
of text presented as an event is the move on Hebron in v. 10.

Shalom,
Bryan



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