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Judges 1:21
The Kenites settle with Judah, Hormah is taken, and Judah gains important Philistine cities, yet the chapter immediately introduces limits: iron chariots remain formidable and Benjamin does not drive the Jebusites from Jerusalem. The mixed report is the point—real victories sit beside incomplete obedience. That tension becomes the seedbed for the compromise that dominates the book.
Joshua says Judah could not drive the Jebusites from Jerusalem, while Judges attributes the continuing failure to Benjamin; together the texts preserve the same unresolved Jebusite presence in the city.
David’s capture of Jerusalem resolves the earlier Judges notice that Benjamin did not drive the Jebusites from the city, carrying an unfinished conquest problem forward into the monarchy.
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