Judges 3:5-7 NIV

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 3:5-11

PART SECONDThe History of Israel under the Judges: a history of sin, ever repeating itself, and of Divine Grace, constantly devising new means of deliverance. Meanwhile, however, the imperfections of the judicial institute display themselves, and prepare the way for the Appointment of a King._______________________FIRST SECTIONThe Servitude to Chushan-Rishathaim, King of Mesopotamia. othniel, The Judge of Blameless and Happy Life_______________________Israel is given up into the power of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 3:1-14

Delivered from Mesopotamian Oppression Judges 3:1-14 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 better to acquire these great lessons and virtues by the regular advance of an obedient and believing life. But where this method fails, God will teach us through our faults. The presence of the Canaanite taught Israel war and self-knowledge. See Judges 3:2 ; Judges 4:1-24 . Othniel had a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 3:1-31

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 enemies were now to be taught by long-continued conflict with them the lessons of vital importance to their fulfillment of divine purpose. In what remains of this chapter, the first two movements of failure, punishment, and deliverance are recorded. The first of these occupies verses seven to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:1-6

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 king of Mesopotamia because of their sins, a servitude from which they were delivered by Othniel. It speaks of their subjection to the Moabites, from which they were freed by Ehud, who privately assassinated the king of Moab, and then made his escape. And it briefly describes the destruction of a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:7

God’s First Lesson. Invasion from the North - The First Judge (Judges 3:7-11 ). Judges 3:7 ‘ And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baalim, and the Asheroth.’ This is slightly different from ‘Baal and the Ashtaroth’ although the intent is the same. The Baalim were the small representations of Baal, which many took into their houses, and the representations of Baal in ‘high places’, places built on hills for the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:1-6

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, the whole era of the Judges falls into longer or shorter times of national prosperity, in which Yahweh protects and blesses His faithful people, alternating with times of national calamity, in which He withdraws His favour and blessing from apostates. On the beneficent strength of the Judge the pillars of state rest... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 3:7-11

Judges 3:7-1 Kings : . 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, repentance, deliverance, peace— practically make up the whole narrative. Not a single detail of the conflict is supplied. The statement that the invaders from the far north of Syria were turned back by Othniel, whose seat was at Debir, in the extreme south, is not... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 3:6

Were drawn to idolatry by the persuasions and examples of their yoke-fellows, through the just judgment of God, punishing their sinful marriages by giving them up to idolatry. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 3:7

i.e. In the groves, in which the heathens usually worshipped their Baalims or idols. Or, the groves are here put metonymically for the idols of the groves, which are distinguished here from their Baalim, which seem to have been worshipped in other places, as the prophets of Baal are distinguished from the prophets of the groves, 1 Kings 18:19. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 3:1-5

GOD’S MEANS OF TESTING CHARACTER AND CHASTISING FOR SIN.—Judges 3:1-4CRITICAL NOTES.—Judges 3:1. Which the Lord left.] Allowed to remain, i.e., spared from doom; not—did not mark out for destruction. For all the Canaanites were doomed to be exterminated, including the Philistines, the Phœnicians and Sidonians; also the Hivites, as far north as the Gate of Hamath, which was about one hundred miles farther north than the conquests of Joshua reached (Numbers 34:7-9; Genesis 15:18). God Himself was... read more