A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 3 _Judges 3:1-7_ A list of the remaining Canaanites. Chapter three opens with a listing of the groups of the Canaanites left in the land. Special notice is made of the five lords of the Philistines, since these were the perennial enemies of Israel. Notice is also made of the Si... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew not... [ Continue Reading ]
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-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. 9 And wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ehud Delivers Israel from Moab Judges 3:12-30_ 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sham-gar Delivers Israel Judges 3:31_ 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel, _13._ Who was Shamgar? Judges 3:31 Shamgar was of the tribe of Benjamin, We are not told that he was of the family of... [ Continue Reading ]