Judges 3:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. ”

• Judges 3:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Seirath - “ The forest” or “weald,” which evidently bordered on the cultivated plain near Gilgal, and extended into “the mountain or hill country of Ephraim.” Once there, he was safe from pursuit...

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• Judges 3:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ehud, the Benjamite. D's setting of the story of Ehud is apparent in Judges 3:12-15 a and Judges 3:30 . The story itself is a genuine folk-tale, handed down from century to century before bein...

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• Judges 3:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  passed . he passed. beyond . by. quarries . the graven images of Ehud. Compare Judges 3:19 .

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• Judges 3:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. Passed beyond the quarries - Beyond the pesilim, which appear to have been the Moabitish borders, where...

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• Judges 3:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ehud escaped while they tarried— It has been asked, how this action of Ehud can be at all justified. It is certainly among the number of those which are not to be imitated without that which gave i...

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• Judges 3:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. And escaped unto Seirath, х ha-Sª`iyraataah ( H8167 ), with the prefix of the definite artic...

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• Judges 3:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites.

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• Judges 3:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Unto Seirath. — Perhaps, rather, into the bush, or woodland, as the word has the article, and does not occur again. When he had got beyond the frontier post of Gilgal, into the district of Ephr...

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• Judges 3:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE DAGGER AND THE OX-GOAD Judges 3:12-31 THE world is served by men of very diverse kinds, and we pass now to one who is in strong contrast to Israel's first deliverer. Othniel the judge witho...

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• Judges 3:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the “Message from God” Judges 3:15-31 The sword is usually worn at the left hand, and Ehud escaped suspicion because his was girded under his raiment on his right thigh. Eglon was also the mo...

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• Judges 3:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 th...

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• Judges 3:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Every circumstance related in this transaction, manifests that it was of God. Eglon was overawed at the supposed message from God, so as to arise. His servants were blinded to any thoughts of suspici...

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• Judges 3:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Ehud escaped while they tarried ,.... While the servants of the king of Moab tarried waiting for the opening of the doors of the parlour, this gave him time enough to make his escape, so as to b...

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• Judges 3:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. Ver. 26. And Ehud escaped while they tarried. ] So did Montgomery, Carnutensis, and other prime Prote...

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• Judges 3:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Judges 3:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. B. C. 1336.       12 And the children of Isr...

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• Judges 3:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Judges 3:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the graven images, and escaped to Seirah.' The delay gave Ehud time to escape and he again came to the graven images, and then escaped int...

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• Judges 3:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ADDED SIN, RENEWED CHASTISEMENT, AND GRACIOUS DELIVERANCE. Judges 3:12-30 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 3:12 . Did evil again in sight of the Lord .] The word הָרַע or רָעָה from רוּעַ is used the s...

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• Judges 3:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 revo...

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• Judges 3:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel. Sin--suffering; penitence and deliverance repeated I. New sin added: “Again” 1. A painful surprise. 2. Deeper guilt. It showed...

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• Judges 3:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Judges 3:13 The children of Ammon . The technical name of the Ammonite people (see Genesis 19:38 ; Deuteronomy 2:19 , Deuteronomy 2:37 ; Judges 10:6 , Judges 10:11 , Judge...

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• Judges 3:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ehud and the Moabites

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• Judges 3:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Judges 3:19

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