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LORDS - Seranim, a title used exclusively of the princes of the five
Philistine cities. The title is probably of Phoenician origin.
Joshua appears to have smitten and subdued the Hivites as far north...
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2. THE ANGEL AT BOCHIM AND THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE BOOK
Chapter S 2:1-3:4
_ 1. The angel at Bochim (Judges 2:1)_
2. Israel's obedience remembered (Judges 2:6)
3. Israel's strange gods (Judges 2:...
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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,
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FIVE LORDS. See note on Joshua 13:2.
ENTERING IN. pass....
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This verse should be compared with Joshua 13:2-6 D. The nations here
are those occupying particular districts in W. Palestine; contrast
Judges 3:5, and the races mentioned in ch. 1.
_the five lords of...
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Judges 3:1-3 explain why _Jehovah left_ THESE _nations_(Judges 2:23);
_it was merely to teach succeeding generations of Israelites the
practice of war_(Judges 3:2 in the main). The idea is obviously a...
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_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...
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_ONLY THAT THE GENERATIONS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MIGHT KNOW, TO
TEACH THEM WAR, AT THE LEAST SUCH AS BEFORE KNEW NOTHING THEREOF;_ NO
JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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PHILISTINES] see Intro. § 5. The Philistines occupied the lowland in
the SW. Their five cities formed a confederacy: see Judges 16:5, etc.,
and 1 Samuel 6:16. At the death of Samuel their power extend...
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INTRODUCTORY (JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 3:4)
Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5.
This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early
conquest of Pa
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THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR
1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
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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...
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FIVE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES. — The princes of the Pentapolis,
Gaza, Ashdod, Askelon, Gath, Ekron. The word rendered “lords” is
evidently a technical or local _title — Seranim._ It is rendered by
the...
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חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת ׀ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים וְ
כָל ־הַֽ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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RUTH 3:1-31
Through Moses, God had made a great promise to Israel to fight for
them and drive out the nations from the land of Canaan (Exodus
23:27-33). Thomas suggests Israel would never have had to...
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Princes, ( satrapas) a Persian word. (Menochius) --- These heads of
the five great cities of the Philistines, are called Seranim,
(Haydock) but never kings, whether they were governors of so many
pett...
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This is an interesting chapter, and the first verse acts as a key to
let us into the meaning of it. The Lord, we are told, left those
nations to prove Israel. Hence we learn, that the trials of God's...
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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...
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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-...
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[NAMELY], FIVE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES,.... The places they were
lords of were Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron; see
Joshua 13:3; three of these, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, had been taken
fro...
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Judges 3:3 [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount
Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Ver....
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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...
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namely, five lords of the Philistines, those of the five city-states
Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, Joshua 13:3, AND ALL THE
CANAANITES, chiefly along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and...
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THE NATIONS WHICH REMAINED...
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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...
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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...
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FIVE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES; whereof three had been in some sort
subdued, JUDGES 1:18, but afterwards rescued themselves, and recovered
their former strength. SEE POOLE ON "JUDGES 1:18". THE CANAANI...
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Judges 3:3 five H2568 lords H5633 Philistines H6430 Canaanites H3669
Sidonians H6722 Hivites H2340 dwelt H3427 (H8802) Mou
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_The nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them._
THE TRIAL AND CHASTISEMENT OF AN UNFAITHFUL PEOPLE
I. It was God’s own thought to put them to the proof.
1. Far otherwise were the though...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 3:3 PHILISTINES belonged to the mercenary sea
peoples, mentioned in Egyptian texts as early as the fourteenth
century B.C.
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_GOD’S MEANS OF TESTING CHARACTER AND CHASTISING FOR SIN.— Judges
3:1_
CRITICAL NOTES.—
Judges 3:1. Which the Lord left.] Allowed to remain, _i.e., spared
from doom_; not—_did not mark out for destru...
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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
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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...
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1 Samuel 13:19; 1 Samuel 13:5; 1 Samuel 29:2; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Samuel
4:
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Five lords — Whereof three had been in some sort subdued, Judges
1:18. but afterwards recovered their strength. Canaanites — Properly
so called, who were very numerous, and dispersed through several p...