Judges 11:26

While Israel dwelt Rather When I. settled. For her townssee on Judges 1:27.

Aroer … Arnon The LXX reads Jazer(cod. A) … Jordan(so Vulgate), which looks like the original text. Jazerlay on the Ammonite border, Numbers 21:24 (LXX), 32, 2 Samuel 24:5, and is associated with Heshbon in Joshua 21:39; it suits the present context better than Aroer (now -Ar-âir) in the extreme S. of Moab. Moreover, since -Aroer and her towns" were situated on the north side of the Arnon, the words which follow in the present text, -and in all the cities that are along by the side of Arnon," add nothing to the description; Jordangives us exactly what is wanted.

three hundred years The total number of years assigned to the oppressions and to the periods of the Judges in the preceding Chapter s comes to 319, or, omitting the Ammonite oppression, to 301. The round number 300 seems, therefore, to be calculated upon the basis of the chronological scheme introduced into the book by the editor of the framework. Thus three hundred yearsmust have been inserted into the narrative, to the disturbance of the proper sense of the clause which follows: within that timeis an incorrect rendering; the words mean at that time (cf. Judges 3:29; Judges 4:4; Judges 12:6 etc.), i.e. when Israel settled in Heshbon.