AbaGwebi 3:1

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

1 Zizo ke ezi iintlanga awaziyekayo uYehova, ukuze awalinge ngazo amaSirayeli, lawo angazazanga iimfazwe zonke zakwaKanan;

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am 2561, bc 1443, An, Ex, Is, 48

the nations: Judges 2:21, Judges 2:22, Deuteronomy 7:22

prove: Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:16, 2 Chronicles 32:31, Job 23:10, Proverbs 17:3, Jeremiah 6:27, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 17:10, Zechariah 13:9, John 2:24, 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 4:12, Revelation 2:23

as had not: Judges 2:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:37 - Moabites Exodus 15:25 - proved Exodus 23:29 - in one year Deuteronomy 6:19 - General Joshua 13:2 - the land Judges 3:4 - to prove 1 Samuel 28:1 - Philistines 1 Kings 9:21 - left 2 Chronicles 12:8 - that they may

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now these [are] the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel by them,.... Which are later mentioned, Judges 3:3;

[even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan; those that Joshua, and the people of Israel under him, had with the Canaanites, when they first entered the land and subdued it; being then not born, or so young as not to have knowledge of them, at least not able to bear arms at that time.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even as many of Israel ... - These words show that the writer has especially in view the generation which came to man’s estate immediately after the close of the wars with the Canaanites Joshua 23:1. Compare Judges 2:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

An account of the nations that we left to prove Israel, 1-4.

How the people provoked the Lord, 5-7.

They are delivered into the power of the king of Mesopotamia,

by whom they are enslaved eight years, 8.

Othniel is raised up as their deliverer; he discomfits the king

of Mesopotamia, delivers Israel, and the land enjoys peace for

forty years, 9-11.

They again rebel, and are delivered into the hand of the king

of Moab, by whom they are enslaved eighteen years, 12-14.

They are delivered by Ehud, who kills Eglon, king of Moab, and

slays ten thousand Moabites, and the land rests fourscore

years, 15-40.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Judges 3:1. Now these are the nations — The nations left to prove the Israelites were the five lordships or satrapies of the Philistines, viz., Gath, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gaza; the Sidonians, the Hivites of Lebanon, Baal-hermon, c. with the remains of the Canaanites, viz., the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, and Jebusites.

Those who were left to be proved were those Israelites that had not seen all the wars of Canaan.