Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:15
Ehud the son of Gera - a man left handed - ימינו יד אטר איש ish itter yad yemino , a man lame in his right hand, and therefore obliged to use his left. The Septuagint render it ανδρα αμφοτεροδεξιον , an ambidexter, a man who could use both hands alike. The Vulgate, qui utraque manu pro dextera utebatur , a man who could use either hand as a right hand, or to whom right and left were equally ready. This is not the sense of the original, but it is the sense in which most... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:13
The city of palm trees - This the Targum renders the city of Jericho; but Jericho had been destroyed by Joshua, and certainly was not rebuilt till the reign of Ahab, long after this, 1 Kings 16:34 . However, as Jericho is expressly called the city of palm trees, Deuteronomy 34:3 , the city in question must have been in the vicinity or plain of Jericho, and the king of Moab had seized it as a frontier town contiguous to his own estates. Calmet supposes that the city of palm trees... read more