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Verse Judges 3:8. _CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM_] _Kushan_, the _wicked_ or
_impious_; and so the word is rendered by the _Chaldee Targum_, the
_Syriac_, and the _Arabic_, wherever it occurs in this chapter....
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Here we hold again the thread of the proper narrative, which seems as
if it ought to have run thus Judges 1:1 : Now, etc. Judges 3:8,
therefore (or “and”) etc.
SERVED CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM - This is the...
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II. THE DECLENSIONS, PUNISHMENTS AND DELIVERANCES
1. The Sin of Idolatry and Othniel
CHAPTER 3:5-11
_ 1. The first declension (Judges 3:5)_
2. Sold to the king of Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8)
3. The...
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OTHNIEL THE KENITE. The brief account of the oppression of Israel by
the Aramæ ans, and of their deliverance by Othniel, is the work of D,
whose familiar categories apostasy, Divine anger, oppression,...
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SOLD. Compare Judges 2:14. Jdg 2:14490 years since Abraham left
Mesopotamia....
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_sold them_ See Judges 2:14 _n._
Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia The rendering _Mesopotamia_,
i.e. the vast region between the Euphrates and Tigris, comes from the
LXX; the Hebr. is _Aram-nahar...
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_Othniel delivers Israel from Cushan-rishathaim_
The account of this deliverance is given as a typical illustration of
the theory announced in Judges 2:11-19. It is composed almost entirely
of the st...
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CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM, KING OF MESOPOTAMIA— _King of Mesopotamia,_
appears to be the interpretation of _Chushan-rishathaim._ Mesopotamia
was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates, and thence had its...
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List of Judges Judges 3:8 to Judges 16:31
_Othniel Judges and Delivers Israel Judges 3:8-11_
8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold
them into the hand of Chushan-rishat...
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_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._...
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CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM] The Heb. word means 'Ethiopian of double
iniquity.' The real name must be hidden behind this expression.
MESOPOTAMIA] see on Genesis 24:10....
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HISTORY OF THE JUDGES (JUDGES 3:5 TO JUDGES 16:31)
On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of
Oppressions and Judges. The larger part of the book is concerned with
six of the Ju...
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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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INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM. — If the reading of all the
MSS. be correct, this must be a term of hatred rather than a name, for
it means “Cushan of the double wickedness.” Some MSS. of the LXX...
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וַ יִּֽחַר ־אַ֤ף יְהוָה֙ בְּ
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַֽ
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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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Unfortunately, Israel at this time failed the test because the people
took the daughters of the nations for their sons' wives and gave their
own daughters to the sons of the nations to have as wives....
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Chusan. This name leads us to conclude that this prince was of
Scythian extraction, a descendant of Chus: (Calmet) it signifies
"black," or an Ethiopian." (Menochius) --- Rasathaim was perhaps the
pla...
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Here we have the relation of the first conqueror of Israel. King of
Mesopotamia means, in the midst of rivers; probably so called from
being situated between the two great rivers, the Euphrates and th...
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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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THEREFORE THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL,.... Because of
their idolatry; see Judges 2:14;
AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHANRISHATHAIM, KING OF
MESOPOTAMIA; or Aramnaharaim; that...
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Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold
them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the
children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
Ver....
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_He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim_ So that the first
enemies that oppressed the Israelites were the Syrians; who, either
out of hatred, or a desire to enlarge their dominions, came ove...
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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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MESOPOTAMIA:
_ Heb._ Aramnaharaim...
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8-11 The first judge was Othniel: even in Joshua's time Othniel began
to be famous. Soon after Israel's settlement in Canaan their purity
began to be corrupted, and their peace disturbed. But afflict...
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i.e. Were made subject and tributary to him....
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Judges 3:8 anger H639 LORD H3068 hot H2734 (H8799) Israel H3478 sold
H4376 (H8799) hand H3027 Cushan-Rishathaim...
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‘ Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he
sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim, a king of Aram-naharaim.
And the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight year...
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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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_Sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia._
ISRAEL IN SERVITUDE
1. This was the first servitude of the Israelites ever since they came
out of their house of bondage in Egypt;...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 3:7 The Downward Spiral of Israel’s
Unfaithfulness. The main part of the book of Judges 1:1 shows how
Israel fell increasingly into sin. It includes the storie
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_MAIN HOMILETICS.— Judges 3:5_
GREAT SIN AND SEVERE CHASTISEMENT
CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 3:5. And the children of Israel dwelt.] Here are two downward
steps at once—a refusal to drive out the Canaan...
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EXPOSITION
This section introduces us into the actual narrative of the Book of
Judges, the prefatory matter being now concluded. The whole book
proceeds on the same model as this section does. The apo...
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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 Samuel 12:9; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:30; Exodus 22:24;...
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Served — That is, were made subject to him. Mesopotamia was that
part of Syria which lay between the two great rivers, Tigris and
Euphrates. This lay at such a distance, that one would not have
though...