Chapter 3

1
am 2561, bc 1443, An, Ex, Is, 48

the nations Judg 2:21-22; Deut 7:22

prove Deut 8:2, Deut 8:16; 2Chr 32:31; Job 23:10; Prov 17:3; Jer 6:27, Jer 17:9-10; Zech 13:9; John 2:24; 1Pet 1:7, 1Pet 4:12; Rev 2:23

as had not Judg 2:10


2
might know Gen 2:17, Gen 3:5, Gen 3:7; 2Chr 12:8; Matt 10:34-39; John 16:33; 1Cor 9:26-27; Eph 6:11-18; 1Tim 6:12; 2Tim 2:3, 2Tim 4:7

to teach Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight, that they might be the instruments of destruction to the wicked nations on whom the curse rested; but now that they had forfeited His favour, they must learn what it is to fight like other men.


3
five lords Judg 10:7, Judg 14:4; Josh 13:3; 1Sam 4:1-2, 1Sam 6:18, 1Sam 13:5, 1Sam 13:19-23, 1Sam 29:2

Canaanites Judg 4:2, Judg 4:23-24; Gen 10:15-19; Num 13:29

Sidonians Judg 10:12, Judg 18:7; Gen 49:13; Josh 11:8-13, Josh 19:28

in mount Num 34:8; Deut 1:7, Deut 3:9; Josh 11:3, Josh 13:5


4
to prove Judg 3:1, Judg 2:22; Exod 15:25; Deut 33:8; 1Cor 11:19; 2Thess 2:9-12


5
dwelt Judg 1:29-32; Ps 106:34-38

Canaanites Gen 10:15-18, Gen 15:19-21; Exod 3:8, Exod 3:17; Deut 7:1; Josh 9:1; Neh 9:8


6
Exod 34:16; Deut 7:3-4; 1Kgs 11:1-5; Ezra 9:11-12; Neh 13:23-27; Ezek 16:3


7
did evil Judg 3:12, Judg 2:11-13

the groves Judg 6:25; Exod 34:13; Deut 16:21; 1Kgs 16:33, 1Kgs 18:19; 2Kgs 23:6, 2Kgs 23:14; 2Chr 15:16, 2Chr 24:18, 2Chr 33:3, 2Chr 33:19, 2Chr 34:3, 2Chr 34:7


8
am 2591, bc 1413, An, Ex, Is, 78

was hot Judg 2:14, Judg 2:20; Exod 22:24; Deut 29:20; Ps 6:1, Ps 85:3

he sold Judg 2:14, Judg 4:9; Deut 32:30; 1Sam 12:9; Isa 50:1; Rom 7:14

Chushanrishathaim Hab 3:7

Mesopotamia Heb. Aram-naharaim. Aram-naharayim, "Syria of the two rivers," or Mesopotamia, "between the rivers," is a famous province situated between the Tigris and Euphrates. It is called by Arabian geographers, Maverannaher, "the country beyond the river;" and is now called Diarbek.


9
am 2599, bc 1405, An, Ex, Is, 86

cried Judg 3:15, Judg 4:3, Judg 6:7, Judg 10:10; 1Sam 12:10; Neh 9:27; Ps 22:5, Ps 78:34, Ps 106:41-44; Ps 107:13-19

raised up Judg 2:16

deliverer Heb. saviour

Othniel Judg 1:13


10
the Spirit Judg 6:34, Judg 11:29, Judg 13:25, Judg 14:6, Judg 14:19; Num 11:17, Num 27:18; 1Sam 10:6, 1Sam 11:6, 1Sam 16:13; 2Chr 15:1, 2Chr 20:14; Ps 51:11; 1Cor 12:4-11; Heb 6:4

came Heb. was

Mesopotamia Heb. Aram


11
the land Judg 3:30, Judg 5:31, Judg 8:28; Josh 11:23; Esth 9:22

Othniel Judg 3:9; Josh 15:17; 1Chr 4:13


12
am 2662, bc 1342, An, Ex, Is, 148

did evil Judg 2:19; Hos 6:4

and the Lord Exod 9:16; 2Kgs 5:1; Isa 10:15, Isa 37:26, Isa 45:1-4; Ezek 38:16; Dan 4:22; Dan 5:18; John 19:11

the king 1Sam 12:9


13
Ammon Judg 5:14; Ps 83:6

the city Judg 1:16; Deut 34:3; Ps 83:7


14
served Lev 26:23-25; Deut 28:40, Deut 28:47-48


15
am 2679, bc 1325, An, Ex, Is, 166

cried unto Judg 3:9; Ps 50:15, Ps 78:34, Ps 90:15; Jer 29:12-13, Jer 33:3

a Benjamite or, the son of Jemini

lefthanded Heb. shut of his right hand, This Hebrew phrase intimates that, either through disease or disuse, he made little or no use of the right hand, but of his left only, and so was the less fit for war, because he would most likely wield a dagger awkwardly. Yet God chose this left-handed man to be the minister of his retributive justice. It was God's right hand that gained Israel the victory, Ps 44:3; not the right hand of the instruments he employed. Judg 20:16; 1Chr 12:2

sent a present 1Sam 10:27; Prov 18:16, Prov 19:6, Prov 21:14; Isa 36:16


16
two edges Ps 149:6; Heb 4:12; Rev 1:16, Rev 2:12

upon Judg 3:21; Ps 45:3; Song 3:8


17
a very fat Judg 3:29 *marg. 1Sam 2:29; Job 15:27; Ps 73:7, Ps 73:19; Jer 5:28, Jer 50:11; Ezek 34:20


19
quarries or graven images, Josh 4:20

a secret Judg 3:20; 2Kgs 9:5-6; Acts 23:18-19

And all that Gen 45:1


20
a summer parlour Heb. a parlour of cooling, The aleeyah, or upper chamber, seems to have been of the same description as the oleah of the Arabs, but properly ventilated, described by Dr. Shaw, who says, that to most of their houses there is a smaller one annexed, which sometimes rises one story higher than the house; at other times, it consists of one or two rooms only, and a terrace; while others that are built, as they frequently are, over the porch or gateway, have, if we except the ground floor, which they want, all the conveniences that belong to the house itself. There is a door of communication from them into the gallery of the house; besides another, which opens immediately from a private staircase, down into the porch or street, without giving the least disturbance to the house. In these back houses strangers are usually lodged and entertained; and to them likewise the men are wont to retire from the noise and hurry of their families, to be more at leisure for mediation or diversions. Amos 3:15

I have Judg 3:19; 2Sam 12:1-15, 2Sam 24:12; Mic 6:9

he arose Ps 29:1; Jer 10:7


21
thrust it Num 25:7-8; 1Sam 15:33; Job 20:25; Zech 13:3; 2Cor 5:16


22
the dirt came out or, it came out at the fundament, Judg 3:22


24
covereth etc. or, doeth his easement, 1Sam 24:3


26
the quarries Judg 3:19


27
he blew Judg 5:14, Judg 6:34; 1Sam 13:3; 2Sam 20:22; 2Kgs 9:13

mountain Judg 7:24, Judg 17:1, Judg 19:1; Josh 17:15, Josh 17:18


28
Follow Judg 4:10, Judg 7:17

the Lord Judg 7:9, Judg 7:15; 1Sam 17:47

the fords Judg 12:5; Josh 2:7


29
lusty Heb. fat, Judg 3:17; Deut 32:15; Job 15:27; Ps 17:10


30
And the land Judg 3:11, Judg 5:31


31
Shamgar Judg 5:6, Judg 5:8

an ox goad This implement, Mr. Maundrell informs us, in Palestine and Syria is of an extraordinary size. He measured several, and "found them about eight feet long; and at the bigger end about six inches in circumference. They were armed at the lesser end with a sharp prickle for driving the oxen; and at the other end with a small paddle of iron, strong and massive, for cleansing the plough from the clay. In the hand of a powerful man such an instrument must be more dangerous and fatal than a sword." Judg 15:15; 1Sam 13:19-22, 1Sam 17:47, 1Sam 17:50; 1Cor 1:17

also Judg 2:16

Israel "So part is called Israel." Judg 4:1, Judg 4:3-24, Judg 10:7, Judg 10:17, Judg 11:4-33; 1Sam 4:1 "It seems to concern only the country next to the Philistines."


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