Judges 3:5-7 NIV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 3:7-31

II. THE RECORD OF ISRAEL’S APOSTASY 3:7-16:31"The judges are twelve in number, reckoning either Deborah or Barak as a judge and omitting Abimelech, whose status in fact depended wholly on his descent from Gideon, and who was in effect not a ’deliverer’, and a ’judge’ only in the sense of a local ruler on his own account." [Note: John Gray, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, p. 189.] Israel’s JudgesJudgeScriptureIsrael’s OppressorsLength in YearsNation(s)King(s)OppressionJudgeshipPeaceOthnielJudges... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:1-31

The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar1-6. Israel’s actual relations with the Canaanites.1. Wars of Canaan] i.e. those waged by Joshua, after whose death (Judges 2:21) the career of victory was made to cease by Jehovah. 2. A third reason for the survival of the heathen in Canaan, in addition to those given in Judges 2:1; and in. Judges 2:22; Judges 3:1. 3. Philistines] see Intro. § 5. The Philistines occupied the lowland in the SW. Their five cities formed a confederacy: see Judges... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:5-31

History of the Judges (Jdg 3:5 to Jdg 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 Judges, one of whom is not properly a Judge at all (Abimelech), and in the case of another (Samson) isolated forays are recorded, but no actual deliverance.7-11. Chushan-rishathaim and Othniel.7. The groves] RV 'the asheroth.' The word (another plural) means the sacred poles set up near an altar, which were... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:5

(5) Dwelt among the Canaanites . . .—These nations are enumerated also in Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:1. In Joshua 24:11 the Girgashites are added; in Ezra 9:1 the Ammonites and Moabites. (See Notes on those places.) At this verse begins the second great section of the book (Judges 3:5-16), which Prof. Cassel summarises as “a history of sin repeating itself, and of Divine Grace constantly devising new remedies.” read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:6

(6) And they took their daughters.—This beginning of intermarriages shows that we are now a generation removed from the days of Joshua. Such marriages had been forbidden in Deuteronomy 7:3. but are not among the sins denounced by the Angel-messenger at Bochim (Judges 2:1). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:7

(7) Did evil in the sight of the Lord.—Rather, did the evil, as in Judges 2:11.And the groves.—Rather, and the Asheroth, i.e., the wooden images of the nature-goddess, Asherah (which are called also Asherim). The LXX. render the word Asherah by alsos, “a grove,” and other versions follow them. (Sec Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 8:5; Deuteronomy 16:21; 2 Kings 23:14, &c.) Thus Luther renders it die Hainen, and it used to be erroneously supposed that the word pointed to tree-worship. The Vulgate... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Judges 3:1-31

Judges 3:1-2 Wherever temptation is, there is God also.... Nothing is at random, as if temptation were hurrying here and there like bullets in the air of a battlefield. F. W. Faber. Judges 3:6 'The conduct of the negotiations,' between the Christian and Moslem powers in Palestine, 'fell to the Templars, and between them and the Saracens there grew up some kind of acquaintance. Having their home in the East they got to know the Eastern character. It was alleged afterwards that in this way their... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Judges 3:1-11

THE ARM OF ARAM AND OF OTHNIELJudges 3:1-11WE 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 Israel by leaving around it in Canaan a circle of vigorous tribes very unlike each other, but alike in this, that each presented to the Hebrews a civilisation from which something might be learned but much had to be dreaded, a seductive form of paganism which ought to have been entirely resisted, an... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Judges 3:5-11

II. THE DECLENSIONS, PUNISHMENTS AND DELIVERANCES 1. The Sin of Idolatry and Othniel CHAPTER 3:5-11 1. The first declension (Judges 3:5-7 ) 2. Sold to the king of Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8 ) 3. The deliverance through Othniel (Judges 3:9-11 ) The first declension, bondage and deliverance is briefly related. We see how Israel went from bad to worse. First, the wicked nations they were to exterminate dwelt amongst them. Then the children of Israel established some relationship with them... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Judges 3:6

3:6 And they took {c} their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.(c) Contrary to God’s commandment, De 7:3. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 3:7-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:1-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:5-31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Judges 3:7

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Judges 3:1-31

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Judges 3:1-11

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Judges 3:5-11

Geneva Study Bible - Judges 3:6

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