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F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 3:1-14

Delivered from Mesopotamian Oppression Judges 3:1-14 Our sins and failures will sometimes be so overruled as to promote the growth of our souls in the true knowledge of ourselves and of God. It would be better to acquire these great lessons and virtues by the regular advance of an obedient and believing life. But where this method fails, God will teach us through our faults. The presence of the Canaanite taught Israel war and self-knowledge. See Judges 3:2 ; Judges 4:1-24 . Othniel had a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:1-31

God left certain nations, a company of stem, implacable enemies, in order to prove Israel. The overruling of God is set forth remarkably in this declaration. The people who had refused to cast out the enemies were now to be taught by long-continued conflict with them the lessons of vital importance to their fulfillment of divine purpose. In what remains of this chapter, the first two movements of failure, punishment, and deliverance are recorded. The first of these occupies verses seven to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:14

‘ And the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.’ They paid tribute and were possibly put to taskwork. It appears that their apostasy was so great that they did not even consider calling on Yahweh. They suffered in silence. But at last it became too much and they remembered the days of old, the delivering power of Yahweh, and once again they turned back to seek Him. They put aside their Baals and their Ashtaroth and Asheroth and they renewed the old covenant. Perhaps He... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:12-30

Judges 3:12-Amos : . Ehud, the Benjamite.— D’ s setting of the story of Ehud is apparent in Judges 3:12-Ezra : a and Judges 3:30. The story itself is a genuine folk-tale, handed down from century to century before being committed to writing. One can readily imagine with what zest it was told in the tribe of Benjamin, where the left-handed Ehud was a popular hero. On the moral question raised by his conduct, the facts at our disposal do not enable us to pronounce with confidence. To our minds... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 3:12-30

ADDED SIN, RENEWED CHASTISEMENT, AND GRACIOUS DELIVERANCE. Judges 3:12-30CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 3:12. Did evil again in sight of the Lord.] The word הָרַע or רָעָה from רוּעַ is used the same both here and in Judges 3:7 to signify evil; but whereas in Judges 3:7 we have the verb יּעֲשׂוּ, meaning simply did, or wrought, in Judges 3:12 we have יֹּספוּ, meaning added to former sin (see also Judges 4:1; Judges 10:6; Judges 13:1), or continued to do evil. God does not forget to count the old sin,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 3:1-31

Chapter 3Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel ( Judges 3:1 ),There were the Philistines, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Perizzites and the Amorites that God left, six nations.And verse six,The children of Israel took their daughters ( Judges 3:6 )That is of the Canaanites, the Hitites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.They took their daughters to be their wives, and they gave their daughters to their... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 3:1-31

Judges 3:7 . The children of Israel served Baalim and the groves. So is the French. אשׁרות asheroth; rendered by the Chaldaic and the Latin versions, lucis, light. The sense seems to be a revolt to Sabianism, or the worship of the hosts of heaven, as on Job 1:15. Jeremiah 7:18. Judges 3:8 . King of Mesopotamia. Meso is middle or lying between the river Euphrates and the Tigris, and Potamia is river. The king of this country was without doubt the king of Nineveh, whose conquests... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 3:12-30

Judges 3:12-30The Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel.Sin--suffering; penitence and deliverance repeatedI. New sin added: “Again”1. A painful surprise.2. Deeper guilt. It showed more deliberation in the act of rebellion, more stubborness of will, and greater defiance of the Divine authority. It also implied the heavy guilt of despising all the argument involved in the close and faithful dealing God had with them, in the terrible chastisements He had already brought down on... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 3:14

Jdg 3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. Ver. 14. Served Eylon … eighteen years.] Eight years they served Chusanrishathaim, Jdg 3:8 now Eglon eighteen, and afterwards Jabin twenty. With the froward God will wrestle; Psa 18:20 neither will God give to much punishing, till men do sinning; but punish them seven times more; Lev 26:28 for is it fit that he should lay down the bucklers first, and not get the better of them? read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 3:14

served: Leviticus 26:23-Lamentations :, Deuteronomy 28:40, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be read more