Judges 3:6, Judges 3:7 KJV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 3:5-11

MAIN HOMILETICS.—Judges 3:5-11GREAT SIN AND SEVERE CHASTISEMENTCRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 3:5. And the children of Israel dwelt.] Here are two downward steps at once—a refusal to drive out the Canaanites, and this followed by a decision to sit down and dwell among them. “Canaanites, Hittites,” etc.—not ethnological but geographical names, say many. The inhabitants of Canaan were a congeries of various races, who adopted a common Semitic language, and were attracted to the country by the commercial... 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 3:6-7

Judges 3:6-7Served their Gods . . . forgat the Lord, and served Baalim and the groves.The downward course of sinI. The form of their sin. One of omission (Judges 2:2).1. No sin of omission is ever small.(1) It slights God’s authority.(2) It implies alienation of heart from God.(3) There is no fear of God before the eyes.2. Sins of omission may become indefinitely great.II. The tendency of sin to multiply itself.1. No sin stands alone.2. The root-sin here was failure to exterminate the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 3:6

Jdg 3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. Ver. 6. And served their gods. ] See Nehemiah 13:26 . See Trapp on " Neh 13:26 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 3:6

Exodus 34:16, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, 1 Kings 11:1-Deuteronomy :, Ezra 9:11, Ezra 9:12, Nehemiah 13:23-Daniel :, Ezekiel 16:3 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:16 - for that will Judges 2:3 - their gods 1 Kings 11:2 - surely Nehemiah 9:26 - they were Ezekiel 16:15 - and playedst Malachi 2:11 - and hath read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Judges 3:6

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.Served their gods — Were drawn to idolatry by the persuasions and examples of their yoke-fellows. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:6

6. And they took their daughters So that marriages and mixing of blood threatened to render Israel homogeneous in blood and paganism with the doomed nations. read more