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Suci 3:11
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the land: Judges 3:30, Judges 5:31, Judges 8:28, Joshua 11:23, Esther 9:22
Othniel: Judges 3:9, Joshua 15:17, 1 Chronicles 4:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:15 - rest Joshua 14:15 - And the land Judges 2:19 - when the Judges 10:11 - children Judges 11:26 - three hundred 1 Samuel 7:15 - judged 2 Chronicles 14:6 - for the land Nehemiah 9:28 - did evil again
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Bishop Usher r reckons these forty years from the rest first settled in the land by Joshua; but the former sense seems best:
and Othniel the son of Kenaz died: not at the end of the forty years; it is not likely he should live so long, but when he died is not certain; Eusebius s says he judged Israel fifty years.
r Anual. Vet. Test. p. 42. s Evangel. Praepar. l. 1O. c. 14. p. 502.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, Judges 3:30) a round number, perhaps equivalent to a generation.
