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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 1:5-16

CRITICAL NOTES.—Judges 1:8. Now the children of Judah had fought, &c.] Heb. = “fought,” the pluperfect form not being given in the original. Still, the sense is, “they formerly fought,” “they had fought.” A similar use of the past for the pluperfect has been noticed under Joshua 8:12. For the time when Judah had fought against Jerusalem we may refer to Joshua 12:8; Joshua 12:10, when, though the king was slain, the strongholds of the city were not fully possessed (Joshua 15:63). As Mr.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Judges 1:1-36

Judges 1:0 and Judges 2:0 The character of Joshua is, like that of many soldiers, simple and easily understood. He was strong and of a good courage, a man, fit not only for battle, but for tedious campaigning; full of resources, and able to keep up the heart of a whole people by his hopeful bearing. It was one of the most difficult of tasks which was entrusted to Joshua. He was to lead the people through a series of the most brilliant and exciting military successes, and then to turn them to... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Judges 1:6-7

DISCOURSE: 261ADONI-BEZEK’S PUNISHMENTJudges 1:6-7. But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.THERE are times and seasons afforded us for the performance of our duty, which, if they be once lost, can never afterwards be recovered. It was thus with the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 1:1-36

Through Moses, the children of Israel were let out of Egypt and God began to form a national kind of identity and began to forge the beginnings of a nation. At the death of Moses, Joshua, who was the servant of Moses, took over and continued to lead the people now into the land that God had promised to their father Abraham that should be theirs, that they should inhabit. And thus, God keeping his covenant and his word to Abraham.Now the book of Judges takes up the next period in their history.... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 1:1-36

Judges 1:1 . After the death of Joshua, whose death was to the Jews the commencement of new troubles; they asked counsel of the Lord, as directed, Numbers 27:21, by Phinehas the priest. Judges 1:3 . Judah said to Simeon, come up with me, for their lots were adjacent, and therefore equally concerned. The Canaanites, it would seem, had returned to some of their former possessions. Judges 1:5 . Adoni-bezek; the lord of Bezek. Joshua 15:19. Judges 1:7 . Having their thumbs and great... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 1:1-10

Judges 1:1-10The children of Israel asked the Lord.Simplicity in prayerJust that! How we have modernised and complicated and destroyed prayer! “The children of Israel asked the Lord.” How simple, how direct, how sensible, how likely to succeed! The altar may have lost its power: no atheist has pulled down the altar, no outsider has taken away one stone from the holy pile; the suppliants may have torn down their own altar. We will modernise and invent and enlarge and embroider the simplicity... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 1:6

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Ver. 6. Kept not their first estate ] Their original integrity or principality. Of this sin of the angels, the cause was the will of the angels, good in itself (but mutable and free), not by working either, but by not working, saith a divine. But left their own habitation ] Being driven thence and hurried into hell. He... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 1:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:26 - the waters Exodus 21:24 - General Joshua 15:16 - General Esther 8:12 - one day Psalms 59:11 - Slay Psalms 107:40 - contempt Psalms 149:8 - General Jeremiah 34:17 - behold Jeremiah 50:15 - as she read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 1:6

But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.Great toes — And this they did, either by the direction of God, or upon notice of his former tyranny and cruelty. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 1:6

6. Cut off his thumbs and… great toes This barbarous mutilation, unusual with the Jews, was designed to incapacitate for military service. The victim of this cruelty could neither march nor fight. In this instance the Israelites exercised this cruelty according to that barbaric style of justice called the lex talionis. In modern warfare it is usual to release prisoners “ on parole,” that is, on their word of honour not to fight again; but among some barbarians such mutilation or... read more