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Verse Judges 1:7. _THREESCORE AND TEN KINDS_] Chieftains, heads of
tribes, or military officers. For the word _king_ cannot be taken here
in its proper and usual sense.
_HAVING THEIR THUMBS AND THEI...
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THREESCORE AND TEN KINGS - We may infer from this number of conquered
kings, that the intestine wars of the Canaanites were among the causes
which, under God’s Providence, weakened their resistance to...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE INTRODUCTION: ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND THE RESULTS
1. Israel's Failure in mingling with the Canaanites
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The question and the answer (Judges 1:1)_
2. Adon...
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JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 2:5. THE CONQUESTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE
ISRAELITES IN WESTERN PALESTINE. From this introduction, which is one
of the most valuable parts of early Hebrew history, we learn that t...
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JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 2:5. THE CONQUESTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE
ISRAELITES IN WESTERN PALESTINE. From this introduction, which is one
of the most valuable parts of early Hebrew history, we learn that t...
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GATHERED. i.e. [the pieces].
AS. according as.
GOD Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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_The conquests of Judah_
2 _.the land_ Not the whole land, but the part which had fallen to
Judah's lot....
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_Threescore and ten kings Seventy_is a round number; the sheikhs of
the Canaanite towns were numerous, and they were continually fighting.
Adoni-zedek was evidently a powerful and important chief amon...
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DISCOURSE: 261
ADONI-BEZEK’S PUNISHMENT
Judges 1:6. _But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and
caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek
said, Threescore and...
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General Introduction to the Period of Judges Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5
_Judah and Simeon Capture Adoni-bezek Judges 1:1-7_
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of
Israel as...
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_AND ADONIBEZEK SAID, THREESCORE AND TEN KINGS, HAVING THEIR THUMBS
AND THEIR GREAT TOES CUT OFF, GATHERED THEIR MEAT UNDER MY TABLE: AS I
HAVE DONE, SO GOD HATH REQUITED ME. AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO J...
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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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KINGS] chiefs or sheikhs of a city or even village. THEY] his own
people....
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
ABOUT THIS BOOK
BELIEFS
The book called Judges was in the *Hebrew *Scriptures. It was in the
section called Former (earlier) *Prophets. In Deuteronomy Chap...
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THREESCORE AND TEN KINGS. — The number might seem incredible, were
it not that the title “king” was freely given to every petty Emir,
and even to village Sheykhs. The “seventy” kings may have been the...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹֽנִי־בֶ֗זֶק
שִׁבְעִ֣ים ׀ מְלָכִ֡ים בְּֽהֹנֹות֩...
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PROBLEMS OF SETTLEMENT AND WAR
Judges 1:1
IT was a new hour in the history of Israel. To a lengthened period of
serfdom there had succeeded a time of sojourn in tents, when the camp
of the tribes, ha...
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RENEWING THE CONQUEST
Judges 1:1
The land had been given. There could be no doubt about _that._ In the
ancient covenant which Jehovah had made with Abram, He said: “Unto
thy seed have I given this la...
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The Book of Judges covers historically a period from the death of
Joshua to the judgeship of Samuel and the introduction of the
monarchy.
It opens with a description of the general condition of affair...
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God selected Judah to lead the rest of the tribes into battle. Judah
asked Simeon to go with him and promised to help him conquer his lot
if he would help conquer that of Judah. They killed 10,000 Can...
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Table, at different times. (Haydock) --- These were probably princes
of some cities of Chanaan, who had been conquered by the tyrant. He
obliged them to feed, like dogs, of what he threw down from his...
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It should seem that, as this verse is inclosed in a parenthesis, it
only meant to notice what had been said before. Probably Jerusalem was
taken in the wars of Joshua. See Joshua 10:1, etc....
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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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Thus, in the beginning of the book, we see evil and failure, and also
simple and blessed deliverances. But alas! the picture darkens more
and more. There are grievous features even in the conduct of t...
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AND ADONIBEZEK SAID,.... To the men of Judah, after his thumbs and
toes were cut off, his conscience accusing him for what he had done to
others, and being obliged to acknowledge he was righteously de...
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And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and
their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat] under my table: as I
have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to...
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_Threescore and ten kings_ Anciently each ruler of a city or great
town was called a king, and had kingly power in that place; and many
such kings we meet with in Canaan; and it is probable that, some...
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[IOSHUAS EXHORTATION, HIS AGE, AND DEATH.]
1 The actes of Iudah and Simeon.
4 Adonibezek iustly requited.
8 Hierusalem taken.
10 Hebron taken.
11 Othniel hath Achsah to wife for taking of Debir....
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And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs
and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table;
after mutilating them in this manner, he had forced them to pick u...
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OVERTHROW OF VARIOUS ENEMIES...
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INITIAL VICTORIES, YET IMPAIRED
(vv. 1-26)
Joshua having died, Israel does not subside into indifference, but
realizes that there is territory that should be possessed. They
therefore appeal to the...
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THEIR THUMBS AND THEIR GREAT TOES:
_ Heb._ the thumbs of their hands and of their feet
GATHERED:
Or, gleaned...
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1-8 The Israelites were convinced that the war against the Canaanites
was to be continued; but they were in doubt as to the manner in which
it was to be carried on after the death of Joshua. In these...
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THREESCORE AND TEN KINGS; which is not strange in those times and
places; for these might be either, first, kings successively, and so
there might be divers of those kings in one place, and so in othe...
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Judges 1:7 Adoni-Bezek H137 said H559 (H8799) Seventy H7657 kings
H4428 thumbs H931 H3027 toes H7272 off...
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‘ And Adonibezek said, “Threescore and ten kings, having their
thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my
table. As I have done, so God has requited me.” And they brought him
to...
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Judges 1:7
I. As I have done, so God hath requited me then the life of man cannot
escape the judgment of God. Man may deny it, may theoretically
disregard it, but cannot escape it.
II. As I have done...
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Judges 1 AND JUDGES 2
The character of Joshua is, like that of many soldiers, simple and
easily understood. He was strong and of a good courage, a man, fit not
only for battle, but for tedious campaig...
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CONTENTS: The incomplete victories of Judah, Benjamin and Manasseh.
CHARACTERS: God, Judah, Simeon, Adoni-bezek, Caleb, Achsah, Othniel.
CONCLUSION: God appoints service according to the strength He...
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Judges 1:1. _After the death of Joshua,_ whose death was to the Jews
the commencement of new troubles; they asked counsel of the Lord, as
directed, Numbers 27:21, by Phinehas the priest.
Judges 1:3. J...
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_The children of Israel asked the Lord._
SIMPLICITY IN PRAYER
Just that! How we have modernised and complicated and destroyed
prayer! “The children of Israel asked the Lord.” How simple, how
direct,...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 1:5 Each city and town in Canaan had its own
“king,” such as ADONI-BEZEK, whose name means “Lord of Bezek.”
CUT OFF HIS THUMBS AND HIS BIG TOES. This would prevent him from ever...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Judges 1:8. Now the children of Judah had fought, &c.] _Heb_. =
“_fought_,” the pluperfect form not being given in the original.
Still, the sense is, “_they formerly fought_,” “_they...
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Through Moses, the children of Israel were let out of Egypt and God
began to form a national kind of identity and began to forge the
beginnings of a nation. At the death of Moses, Joshua, who was the...
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1 Samuel 15:33; Exodus 21:23; Isaiah 33:1; James 2:13; Leviticus 2
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JUDE'S CERTAIN MEN
_ The Book of Jude_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The statement, "Thy testimonies are wonderful" is nowhere more
strikingly true than in the Book of Jude. No photographer ever made a
better...
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Threescore and ten — Which is not strange in those times and places.
For it is well known, that anciently each ruler of a city, or great
town, was called a king, and had kingly power in that place; an...