Here we have the relation of the first conqueror of Israel. King of Mesopotamia means, in the midst of rivers; probably so called from being situated between the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. Eight years subjugation, no doubt, was long and grievous. Alas! how many years do God's people groan under the powerful enemies both within and without, which rise against them by reason of their rebellion.
Verse Judges 3:8. _CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM_] _Kushan_, the _wicked_ or _impious_; and so the word is rendered by the _Chaldee Targum_, the _Syriac_, and the _Arabic_, wherever it occurs in this chapter....
Here we hold again the thread of the proper narrative, which seems as if it ought to have run thus Judges 1:1 : Now, etc. Judges 3:8, therefore (or “and”) etc. SERVED CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM - This is the...
II. THE DECLENSIONS, PUNISHMENTS AND DELIVERANCES 1. The Sin of Idolatry and Othniel CHAPTER 3:5-11 _ 1. The first declension (Judges 3:5)_ 2. Sold to the king of Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8) 3. The...
OTHNIEL THE KENITE. The brief account of the oppression of Israel by the Aramæ ans, and of their deliverance by Othniel, is the work of D, whose familiar categories apostasy, Divine anger, oppression,...
SOLD. Compare Judges 2:14. Jdg 2:14490 years since Abraham left Mesopotamia....
_sold them_ See Judges 2:14 _n._ Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia The rendering _Mesopotamia_, i.e. the vast region between the Euphrates and Tigris, comes from the LXX; the Hebr. is _Aram-nahar...
_Othniel delivers Israel from Cushan-rishathaim_ The account of this deliverance is given as a typical illustration of the theory announced in Judges 2:11-19. It is composed almost entirely of the st...
CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM, KING OF MESOPOTAMIA— _King of Mesopotamia,_ appears to be the interpretation of _Chushan-rishathaim._ Mesopotamia was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates, and thence had its...
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-rishat...
_THEREFORE THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM KING OF MESOPOTAMIA: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SERVED CHUSHAN-RISHATHA'IM EIGHT YEARS._...
CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM] The Heb. word means 'Ethiopian of double iniquity.' The real name must be hidden behind this expression. MESOPOTAMIA] see on Genesis 24:10....
THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
HISTORY OF THE JUDGES (JUDGES 3:5 TO JUDGES 16:31) On this, the main section of the book, see Intro. § 2 and List of Oppressions and Judges. The larger part of the book is concerned with six of the Ju...
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...
INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM. — If the reading of all the MSS. be correct, this must be a term of hatred rather than a name, for it means “Cushan of the double wickedness.” Some MSS. of the LXX...
וַ יִּֽחַר ־אַ֤ף יְהוָה֙ בְּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַֽ
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...
Unfortunately, Israel at this time failed the test because the people took the daughters of the nations for their sons' wives and gave their own daughters to the sons of the nations to have as wives....
Chusan. This name leads us to conclude that this prince was of Scythian extraction, a descendant of Chus: (Calmet) it signifies "black," or an Ethiopian." (Menochius) --- Rasathaim was perhaps the pla...
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-...
THEREFORE THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL,.... Because of their idolatry; see Judges 2:14; AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHANRISHATHAIM, KING OF MESOPOTAMIA; or Aramnaharaim; that...
Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. Ver....
_He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim_ So that the first enemies that oppressed the Israelites were the Syrians; who, either out of hatred, or a desire to enlarge their dominions, came ove...
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...
Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, it was kindled, it flared up in an angry flame, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM, KING OF MESOPOTAMIA, some mighty monarch t...
OTHNIEL JUDGE OF ISRAEL...
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...
MESOPOTAMIA: _ Heb._ Aramnaharaim...
8-11 The first judge was Othniel: even in Joshua's time Othniel began to be famous. Soon after Israel's settlement in Canaan their purity began to be corrupted, and their peace disturbed. But afflict...
i.e. Were made subject and tributary to him....
Judges 3:8 anger H639 LORD H3068 hot H2734 (H8799) Israel H3478 sold H4376 (H8799) hand H3027 Cushan-Rishathaim...
‘ Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim, a king of Aram-naharaim. And the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight year...
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...
_Sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia._ ISRAEL IN SERVITUDE 1. This was the first servitude of the Israelites ever since they came out of their house of bondage in Egypt;...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 3:7 The Downward Spiral of Israel’s Unfaithfulness. The main part of the book of Judges 1:1 shows how Israel fell increasingly into sin. It includes the storie
_MAIN HOMILETICS.— Judges 3:5_ GREAT SIN AND SEVERE CHASTISEMENT CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 3:5. And the children of Israel dwelt.] Here are two downward steps at once—a refusal to drive out the Canaan...
EXPOSITION This section introduces us into the actual narrative of the Book of Judges, the prefatory matter being now concluded. The whole book proceeds on the same model as this section does. The apo...
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 Samuel 12:9; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:30; Exodus 22:24;...
Served — That is, were made subject to him. Mesopotamia was that part of Syria which lay between the two great rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. This lay at such a distance, that one would not have though...