Judges 3:1-6

1 These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.

5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

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Judges 3:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 3

This chapter gives an account of the nations left in Canaan to prove Israel, and who became a snare unto them, Jud 3:1-7; and of the servitude of Israel under the king of Mesopotamia for their sins, from which they were delivered by Othniel, Jud 3:8-11; and of their subjection to the Moabites, from which they were freed by Ehud, who privately assassinated the king of Moab, and then made his escape, Jud 3:12-30; and of the destruction of a large number of Philistines by Shamgar, with an ox goad, Jud 3:31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. S Exodus 15:25; Judges 2:21-22
2. S Joshua 13:3
3. S Genesis 10:14
4. S Genesis 10:17; S Exodus 3:8
5. S Deuteronomy 3:8
6. S Numbers 13:21
7. S Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 8:2; Judges 2:22
8. Psalms 106:35
9. S Joshua 3:10
10. S Joshua 11:3; Ezra 9:1
11. Ezra 10:18; Nehemiah 13:23; Malachi 2:11
12. S Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4
13. S Deuteronomy 7:16

Judges 3:1-6

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Judges 3:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 3

Cross References 13