What does Judges 1:11 mean?
Judah continues its campaign to drive out all the wicked Canaanites (Deuteronomy 9:4–5) from its territory in southern Israel (Judges 1:4–10). That campaign is now focused on what is called the "hill country," south of Jerusalem. The ancient city of Hebron and its surrounding area had been promised to Caleb by Joshua.The writer of Judges will repeat the story of Caleb capturing Hebron (Judges 1:12–15) during an earlier campaign (Joshua 15:15–19). After that, Caleb turned his sights on the nearby city of Debir, formerly known as Kiriath-sepher.