Whereas Judges 1:19 states that the Lord was with Judah but they could not drive out the inhabitants because they had iron chariots, Matthew 19:26 declares that with God all things are possible. Traditional harmonization explains the battlefield failure as a lack of absolute human faith rather than a limit on divine omnipotence; conversely, critical scholarship views it as a reflection of an early, territorial theology where a localized deity's power was bounded by regional military technologies.