What does Judges 1:36 mean?
Judges chapter 1 ends with a detail about the group identified as the Amorites in southern Israel. It's possible that the names "Amorite" and "Canaanite" were used generically for the general population at this time (Joshua 24:15).The tribe of Dan had been unable to take the plains from the Amorites in their territory, though Ephraim had been able to enslave at least some of the Amorite population eventually (Judges 1:34–35). This verse adds that the Amorite territory may have started as far south as the southwestern edge of the Sea of Galilee, where the "ascent of Akrabbim" is thought to have been located. The border ran to a now unknown location called Sela.