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
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