Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 3:6
Served their gods — Were drawn to idolatry by the persuasions and examples of their yoke — fellows.
Served their gods — Were drawn to idolatry by the persuasions and examples of their yoke — fellows.
Verse Judges 3:6. _AND THEY TOOK THEIR DAUGHTERS_] They formed matrimonial alliances with those proscribed nations, served their idols, and thus became one with them in _politics_ and _religion_....
See Judges 2:2 note....
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...
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,
TOOK THEIR DAUGHTERS, contrary to Jehovah's express command. Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3....
_they took their daughters_ Cf. Genesis 34:9; Genesis 34:16; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3. According to the ideas of the ancient world, it was imp
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DWELT AMONG THE CANAANITES, &C.— We learn from these verses, that the children of Israel offended in three particulars: _First,_ In suffering to remain among them that peopl...
_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...
_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....
Cp. Exodus 34:16; Nehemiah 13:25....
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...
THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
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...
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...
וַ יִּקְח֨וּ אֶת ־בְּנֹותֵיהֶ֤ם לָהֶם֙ לְ נָש
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...
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...
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...
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....
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, (Deuteronomy 7:3)....
_Gods. This was the fatal consequence which God had foretold, Deuteronomy vii. 4. (Haydock)_...
Those who have no knowledge of the corruption of the human heart, would be at a loss to conceive the possibility of such abominable conduct in Israel. But alas! what is not the human heart capable of...
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...
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-...
AND THEY TOOK THEIR DAUGHTERS TO BE THEIR WIVES, AND GAVE THEIR DAUGHTERS TO THEIR SONS,.... The Israelites intermarried with the inhabitants of the land, contrary to the express command of God, Deute...
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. Ver. 6. _And served their gods._] See Nehemiah 13:26. _See Trapp on "_ Neh 13:26 _"_...
_They took their daughters, and served their gods_ Were drawn to idolatry by the persuasions and examples of their yoke-fellows. _And served Baalim and the groves_ Or, _Baalim in groves;_ that is, fal...
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...
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, thus entering into the most intimate social relationship with them, AND SERVED THEIR GODS, the natural conseque...
THE NATIONS WHICH REMAINED...
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...
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...
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....
Judges 3:6 took H3947 (H8799) daughters H1323 wives H802 gave H5414 (H8804) daughters H1323 sons H1121 served...
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...
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...
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...
_Served their Gods _. .. _ forgat the Lord, and served Baalim and the groves._ THE DOWNWARD COURSE OF SIN I. The form of their sin. One of omission (Judges 2:2). 1. No sin of omission is ever small...
_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...
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
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...
1 Kings 11:1; Deuteronomy 7:3; Deuteronomy 7:4; Exodus 34:16; Ezek