1. Juges 1:4 (NEG79)
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What is known about the Perizzites?

Judges (Juges) 1:4 (ESV)

4 Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.

On a number of occasions in Scripture, this word occurs in tandem with Canaanites (Genesis 13:7; Genesis 34:30; here in Judges 1:4–5). The Perizzites’ exact identity has remained uncertain. In the cases where the term occurs in conjunction with Canaanites, it simply appears to refer to a major component of Canaan’s population.1