Judges 3:27-30 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 3:12-30

Ehud is the next of the judges whose achievements are related in this history, and here is an account of his actions. I. When Israel sins again God raises up a new oppressor, Jdg. 3:12-14. It was an aggravation of their wickedness that they did evil again after they had smarted so long for their former iniquities, promised so fair when Othniel judged them, and received so much mercy from God in their deliverance. What, and after all this, again to break his commandments! Was the disease... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:27

And it came to pass, when he was come , That is, to Seirath, Judges 3:26 , in the tribe of Ephraim: that be blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim ; which being an high mountain, the sound of the trumpet was heard afar off; and if Ehud's design was known to the Israelites, what he intended to do, this might be the token agreed on, should he succeed, to call them together, see Jeremiah 31:6 , and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:28

And he said unto them, follow after me ,.... This he said to encourage them, putting himself at the head of them showing himself ready to expose his own life, if there was any danger: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hands ; which he concluded from the success he had had in cutting off the king of Moab which had thrown the Moabites into great confusion and distress, and from an impulse on his mind from the Lord, assuring him of this deliverance: and they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:29

And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men ,.... Who had been sent into the land of Israel to keep it in subjection, or had settled themselves there for their better convenience, profit, and pleasure; it is very probable there were some of both sorts: all lusty, and all men of valour ; the word for "lusty" signifies "fat", living in ease for a long time, and in a plentiful country were grown fat; and, according to Ben Gersom, it signifies rich men, such as had acquired... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel ,.... Or the Moabites were broken, as the Targum, that is, their forces in the land of Israel; for the land of Moab itself was not subdued and brought into subjection to the Israelites; but they were so weakened by this stroke upon them, that they could not detain the Israelites under their power any longer: and the land had rest fourscore years ; eighty years, which, according to Ben Gersom, are to be reckoned from the beginning of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:28

Took the fords of Jordan - It is very likely that the Moabites, who were on the western side of Jordan, hearing of the death of Eglon, were panic-struck, and endeavored to escape over Jordan at the fords near Jericho, when Ehud blew his trumpet in the mountains of Ephraim, and thus to get into the land of the Moabites, which lay on the east of Jordan; but Ehud and his men, seizing the only pass by which they could make their escape, slew ten thousand of them in their attempt to cross... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:29

All lusty , and all men of valor - Picked, chosen troops, which Eglon kept among the Israelites to reduce and overawe them. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:30

The land had rest fourscore years - This is usually reckoned from the deliverance under Othniel, that being a term from which they dated every transaction, as in other cases they dated from the exodus, from the building of Solomon's temple, etc., and as other nations did from particular events: the Romans, from the building of the city; the Mohammedans, from the Hijreh, or flight of Mohammed to Medina; the Christians, from the birth of Christ, etc., etc. But see the preface, and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:28

Ehud “went down” from the mountain of Ephraim into the Jordan valley beneath it, straight to the Jordan fords Joshua 2:7, so as to intercept all communication between the Moabites on the west side and their countrymen on the east. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:30

The land - i. e. that portion of it which had suffered from the oppression of Moab, probably Benjamin and Ephraim chiefly (see Judges 3:11).In judging of the nature of Ehud’s act there are many considerations which must greatly modify our judgment. Acts of violence or cunning, done in an age when human society applauded such acts, when the best men of the age thought them right, and when men were obliged to take the law into their own hands in self-defense, are very different from the same acts... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 3:12-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 3:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:28

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:30

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