To prove Israel That their piety and faithfulness to the one living and true God might appear, if they did not imitate these nations, and relapse into idolatry, and their baseness and degeneracy if they did. To know whether they would hearken That is, that they themselves and others might know by experience.
Verse Judges 3:4. _TO KNOW WHETHER THEY WOULD HEARKEN_] This would be the consequence of the Canaanites being left among them: if they should be faithful to God, their enemies would not be able to ens...
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:...
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,
_to prove Israel_ leads back to the thought of Judges 2:22 and Judges 3:1, and prepares the way for Judges 3:5. The verse seems to be a later editorial adaptation....
_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...
_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....
THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
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
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...
TO PROVE ISRAEL. — See Judges 2:22....
וַֽ יִּהְי֕וּ לְ נַסֹּ֥ות בָּ֖ם אֶת ־יִשְׂרָא
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...
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...
Not. Various reasons are assigned, on the part of God, for not exterminating these nations at once. But their being spared so long, must be imputed to the disobedience of the Israelites, otherwise the...
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...
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 WERE TO PROVE ISRAEL BY THEM,.... They were left in the land, as to inure them to war, and try their courage, so to prove their faithfulness to God: TO KNOW WHETHER THEY WOULD HEARKEN TO THE...
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. Ver. 4. _And they were to prove._]...
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, these heathen nations, WERE TO PROVE ISRAEL BY THEM, TO KNOW WHETHER THEY WOULD HEARKEN UNTO THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD WHICH HE COMMANDED THEIR FATHERS BY THE HAND OF MOSES. By being oppr...
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...
TO KNOW, i.e. that they and others might know by experience....
Judges 3:4 test H5254 (H8763) Israel H3478 know H3045 (H8800) obey H8085 (H8799) commandments H4687 LORD...
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...
_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...
_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...
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 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Deuteronomy 33:8; Exodus 15:25;...
To know — That is, that they and others might know by experience....