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Verse Judges 3:4. _TO KNOW WHETHER THEY WOULD HEARKEN_] This would be
the consequence of the Canaanites being left among them: if they
should be faithful to God, their enemies would not be able to ens...
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2. THE ANGEL AT BOCHIM AND THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE BOOK
Chapter S 2:1-3:4
_ 1. The angel at Bochim (Judges 2:1)_
2. Israel's obedience remembered (Judges 2:6)
3. Israel's strange gods (Judges 2:...
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JUDGES 2:6 TO JUDGES 3:6. THE DEUTERONOMIST'S INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK
OF JUDGES PROPER (Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31). In the view of this
interpreter of sacred history,
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_to prove Israel_ leads back to the thought of Judges 2:22 and Judges
3:1, and prepares the way for Judges 3:5. The verse seems to be a
later editorial adaptation....
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_Nations Left to Test Israel Judges 3:1-6_
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;
2 Only that the gener...
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_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....
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INTRODUCTORY (JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 3:4)
Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5.
This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early
conquest of Pa
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THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR
1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 3
V1 These are the nations that the *Lord left. He left them in order
to test *Israel’s people. These people had not fought any wars in
*Canaan. V2...
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TO PROVE ISRAEL. — See Judges 2:22....
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וַֽ יִּהְי֕וּ לְ נַסֹּ֥ות בָּ֖ם אֶת
־יִשְׂרָא
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THE ARM OF ARAM AND OF OTHNIEL
Judges 3:1
WE come now to a statement of no small importance, which may be the
cause of some perplexity. It is emphatically affirmed that God
fulfilled His design for I...
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DELIVERED FROM MESOPOTAMIAN OPPRESSION
Judges 3:1
Our sins and failures will sometimes be so overruled as to promote the
growth of our souls in the true knowledge of ourselves and of God. It
would be...
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God left certain nations, a company of stem, implacable enemies, in
order to prove Israel. The overruling of God is set forth remarkably
in this declaration. The people who had refused to cast out the...
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RUTH 3:1-31
Through Moses, God had made a great promise to Israel to fight for
them and drive out the nations from the land of Canaan (Exodus
23:27-33). Thomas suggests Israel would never have had to...
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Not. Various reasons are assigned, on the part of God, for not
exterminating these nations at once. But their being spared so long,
must be imputed to the disobedience of the Israelites, otherwise the...
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This is an interesting chapter, and the first verse acts as a key to
let us into the meaning of it. The Lord, we are told, left those
nations to prove Israel. Hence we learn, that the trials of God's...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of
His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their
practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3, 4, AND 5.
God, knowing what the people were, and what was their condition, had
left within the borders of their land that which put obedience to the
proof-...
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AND THEY WERE TO PROVE ISRAEL BY THEM,.... They were left in the land,
as to inure them to war, and try their courage, so to prove their
faithfulness to God:
TO KNOW WHETHER THEY WOULD HEARKEN TO THE...
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And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would
hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their
fathers by the hand of Moses.
Ver. 4. _And they were to prove._]...
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_To prove Israel_ That their piety and faithfulness to the one living
and true God might appear, if they did not imitate these nations, and
relapse into idolatry, and their baseness and degeneracy if...
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1 The nations which were left to prooue Israel.
6 By communion with them they commit idolatrie.
8 Othniel deliuereth them from Chushan-Rishathaim.
12 Ehud from Eglon.
31 Shamgar from the Philistin...
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THE NATIONS LEFT TO TEST ISRAEL
(vv. 1-6)
The younger Israelites had not learned war, and were faced now with
learning it by means of the nations left in the land, for God is not
going to exempt an...
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1-7 As the Israelites were a type of the church on earth, they were
not to be idle and slothful. The Lord was pleased to try them by the
remains of the devoted nations they spared. Temptations and tr...
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TO KNOW, i.e. that they and others might know by experience....
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Judges 3:4 test H5254 (H8763) Israel H3478 know H3045 (H8800) obey
H8085 (H8799) commandments H4687 LORD...
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CHAPTER 3. DELIVERERS.
This chapter gives an account of the nations who remained in Canaan to
prove Israel's faithfulness, and who became a snare to them. It
describes the servitude of Israel under a...
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CONTENTS: Apostasies of Israel. Deliverances through Othniel, Ehud and
Shamgar.
CHARACTERS: God, Othniel, Chushan-rishathian, Eglou, Ehud, Shamgar.
CONCLUSION: Man's memory is treacherous in that it...
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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...
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_The nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them._
THE TRIAL AND CHASTISEMENT OF AN UNFAITHFUL PEOPLE
I. It was God’s own thought to put them to the proof.
1. Far otherwise were the though...
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_GOD’S MEANS OF TESTING CHARACTER AND CHASTISING FOR SIN.— Judges
3:1_
CRITICAL NOTES.—
Judges 3:1. Which the Lord left.] Allowed to remain, _i.e., spared
from doom_; not—_did not mark out for destru...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 3:1
NOW THESE ARE THE NATIONS, etc. We are now told in detail what was
stated in general in Judges 2:22, Judges 2:23, after the common method
of Hebrew narrative. To
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Now 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 Amor...
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1 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Deuteronomy 33:8; Exodus
15:25;...
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To know — That is, that they and others might know by experience....