1. Judges 1:34 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the mention of the verb “press”?

Judges 1:34 (ESV)

34 The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.

This is the first time in the narrative that this verb is used, and it foreshadows things to come (Judges 2:18; Judges 4:3; Judges 6:9; Judges 10:12).