_NOW THESE ARE THE NATIONS WHICH THE LORD LEFT, TO PROVE ISRAEL BY THEM, EVEN AS MANY OF ISRAEL AS HAD NOT KNOWN ALL THE WARS OF CANAAN;_ These are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel. This was the special design of these nations being left, and it evinces the direct influence of the T... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY THAT THE GENERATIONS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MIGHT KNOW, TO TEACH THEM WAR, AT THE LEAST SUCH AS BEFORE KNEW NOTHING THEREOF;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, HITTITES, AND AMORITES, AND PERIZZITES, AND HIVITES, AND JEBUSITES:_ The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites. The two classes by degrees came to be in habits of contact: reciprocal alliances were formed by marriage, until the Israeli... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THEIR DAUGHTERS TO BE THEIR WIVES, AND GAVE THEIR DAUGHTERS TO THEIR SONS, AND SERVED THEIR GODS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND FORGAT THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND SERVED BAALIM AND THE GROVES._ The groves, х_ HAA-'ASHEEROWT_ (H842)] - pillars, images of Ashtoreth; not as our translators render it, after the Septuagint: alsee, groves.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM KING OF MESOPOTAMIA: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SERVED CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM EIGHT YEARS._ Sold them - i:e., delivered them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim; i:e., of 'doubled wickedness'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD, THE LORD RAISED UP A DELIVERER TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHO DELIVERED THEM, EVEN OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ, CALEB'S YOUNGER BROTHER._ When the children of Israel cried unto the Lord. In their distress they had recourse to earnest prayer, accomp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM, AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL, AND WENT OUT TO WAR: AND THE LORD_ _ DELIVERED CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM KING OF MESOPOTAMIA INTO HIS HAND; AND HIS HAND PREVAILED AGAINST CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM._ The Spirit of the Lord name upon him. The consciousness of a divine impulse was... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS. AND OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ DIED._ Othniel ... died. 'How powerful the influence of one good man is, in church or state, is best found in his loss' (Dr. Hall).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL AGAIN IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD: AND THE LORD STRENGTHENED EGLON THE KING OF MOAB AGAINST ISRAEL, BECAUSE THEY HAD DONE EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD._ The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord. The Israelites, deprived of the moral and polit... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GATHERED UNTO HIM THE CHILDREN OF AMMON AND AMALEK, AND WENT AND SMOTE ISRAEL, AND POSSESSED THE CITY OF PALM TREES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD, THE LORD RAISED THEM UP A DELIVERER, EHUD THE SON OF GERA, A BENJAMITE, A MAN LEFTHANDED: AND BY HIM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SENT A PRESENT UNTO EGLON THE KING OF MOAB._ Ehud the son of Gera - i:e., descended from Gera, one of Benjamin's sons (Ge... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT EHUD MADE HIM A DAGGER WHICH HAD TWO EDGES, OF A CUBIT LENGTH; AND HE DID GIRD IT UNDER HIS RAIMENT UPON HIS RIGHT THIGH._ Did grid it under ... his right thigh. The sword was usually worn on the left side; so that Ehud's was the more likely to escape detection under his wide-flowing cloak.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT THE PRESENT UNTO EGLON KING OF MOAB: AND EGLON WAS A VERY FAT MAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HE HIMSELF TURNED AGAIN FROM THE QUARRIES THAT WERE BY GILGAL, AND SAID, I HAVE A SECRET ERRAND UNTO THEE, O KING: WHO SAID, KEEP SILENCE. AND ALL THAT STOOD BY HIM WENT OUT FROM HIM._ Quarries. There are no remains of quarries in that neighborhood. The Hebrew word is х_ HAPªCIYLIYM _ (H6456)]... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EHUD CAME UNTO HIM; AND HE WAS SITTING IN A SUMMER PARLOUR, WHICH HE HAD FOR HIMSELF ALONE. AND EHUD SAID, I HAVE A MESSAGE FROM GOD UNTO THEE. AND HE AROSE OUT OF HIS SEAT._ A summer parlour - Hebrew, 'chamber of cooling:' one of those retired edifices which Oriental grandees usually have in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EHUD PUT FORTH HIS LEFT HAND, AND TOOK THE DAGGER FROM HIS RIGHT THIGH, AND THRUST IT INTO HIS BELLY:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN EHUD WENT FORTH THROUGH THE PORCH, AND SHUT THE DOORS OF THE PARLOUR UPON HIM, AND LOCKED THEM._ Ehud went forth. The whole circumstances of this daring act,-the death of Eglon without a shriek or noise, the locking of the doors, the carrying off the key, the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehu... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN HE WAS GONE OUT, HIS SERVANTS CAME; AND WHEN THEY SAW THAT, BEHOLD, THE DOORS OF THE PARLOUR WERE LOCKED, THEY SAID, SURELY HE COVERETH HIS FEET IN HIS SUMMER CHAMBER._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EHUD ESCAPED WHILE THEY TARRIED, AND PASSED BEYOND THE QUARRIES, AND ESCAPED UNTO SEIRATH._ And escaped unto Seirath, х_ HA-Sª`IYRAATAAH_ (H8167), with the prefix of the definite article, and the particle of motion, to, at the end]. The place was in the Ephraim mountain; and from its name Seir... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME, THAT HE BLEW A TRUMPET IN THE MOUNTAIN OF EPHRAIM, AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT DOWN WITH HIM FROM THE MOUNT, AND HE BEFORE THEM._ He blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, х_ SHOWPAAR_ (H7782), a horn, either animal or metallic, commonly the former; S... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, FOLLOW AFTER ME: FOR THE LORD HATH DELIVERED YOUR ENEMIES THE MOABITES INTO YOUR HAND. AND THEY WENT DOWN AFTER HIM, AND TOOK THE FORDS OF JORDAN TOWARD MOAB, AND SUFFERED NOT A MAN TO PASS OVER._ The Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They were en... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SLEW OF MOAB AT THAT TIME ABOUT TEN THOUSAND MEN, ALL LUSTY, AND ALL MEN OF VALOUR; AND THERE ESCAPED NOT A MAN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTER HIM WAS SHAMGAR THE SON OF ANATH, WHICH SLEW OF THE PHILISTINES SIX HUNDRED MEN WITH AN OX GOAD: AND HE ALSO DELIVERED ISRAEL._ AFTER HIM WAS SHAMGAR. No notice is given of the tribe or family of this judge; and from the Philistines being the enemy that roused him into public service, the... [ Continue Reading ]