Judges 3:11
What meaning of the judges 3:11 in the Bible?
What does Judges 3:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."
What does Judges 3:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."
THE LAND - means here, as in Judges 1:2, not the whole land of Canaan, but the part concerned, probably the land of the tribe of Judah. Forty years, here and elsewhere, is (like fourscore years, Judge...
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,...
HAD REST. Repeated four times: Judges 3:11; Judges 3:30; Judges 5:31; Judges 8:20, to prevent the periods of rest and servitude being "telescoped". See App-50. Introduction....
_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...
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...
_AND THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS. AND OTHNIEL THE SON OF KENAZ DIED._ Othniel ... died. 'How powerful the influence of one good man is, in church or state, is best found in his loss' (Dr. Hall)....
THE STORY OF THE JUDGES. OTHNIEL. EHUD. SHAMGAR 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites....
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...
THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS. — Rabbi Tanchum interprets this to mean, “till forty years after the death of Joshua.” For the very difficult chronology of this period, see the Introduction. Many quest...
וַ תִּשְׁקֹ֥ט הָ אָ֖רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַ יָּ֖מָת עָתְנִיאֵ֥ל בֶּן ־קְנַֽז׃ פ...
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 b...
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....
And the land had rest (f) forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. (f) That is, 32 under Joshua and 8 under Othniel....
Died, "forty years after Josue, according to the chronology of Usher, which we follow," (Calmet) or rather Usher translates the land began to rest "in the fortieth year" from the peace of Josue. He pl...
Observe how many years the land had rest after God's deliverance. But oh! what an everlasting rest remaineth for the people of God, when Jesus hath given them rest, who is indeed himself the rest of h...
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 THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS,.... As it should seem from the time of this deliverance; though, according to Ben Gersom and Abarbinel, the eight years' servitude are to be included in them; and Bi...
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. Ver. 11. _And the land had rest forty years,_] _sc., _ From the death of Joshua to the death of Othniel, and the eight years of s...
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...
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...
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 afflicti...
THE LAND HAD REST; either, first, It rested about forty years, or the greatest part of forty years; it being most frequent in Scripture to use numbers in such a latitude. Thus the Israelites are said...
Judges 3:11 land H776 rest H8252 (H8799) forty H705 years H8141 Othniel H6274 son H1121 Kenaz H7073 died H4191 (H8799) the land - Judges 3:30, Judges 5:31, Judges 8:28; Joshua 11:23;...
‘ And the land had rest forty years, and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.' This really means that the land had rest ‘for a generation'. Forty years is a round number signifying a generation. It is also...
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...
_Othniel the son of Kenaz _. .. _ and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him._ THE CONTROLLING MAN It is the personal soul that is the basis of all action. Your machinery is soulless, and the true driv...
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 stories of 12 judges rais...
_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 ap...
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 Chronicles 4:13; Esther 9:22; Joshua 11:23; Joshua 15:17; Judges 3:30; Judges 3:9; Judges 5:31; Judges 8:28...
Forty years — It rested about forty years, or the greatest part of forty years: it being most frequent in scripture to use numbers in such a latitude. Nor is it unusual either in scripture, or in othe...