Judges 3:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. ”

Judges 3:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land - i. e. that portion of it which had suffered from the oppression of Moab, probably Benjamin and Ephraim chiefly (see Judges 3:11 ). In judging of the nature of Ehud’s act there are m...
Judges 3:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the (k) land had rest fourscore years. (k) Meaning, the Israelites.
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

years. The Septuagint adds "until he died".
Judges 3:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. The land had rest fourscore years - This is usually reckoned from the deliverance under Othniel, that bei...
Judges 3:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Judges 3:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites.
Judges 3:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The land. — Meaning, probably, the southern tribes. Fourscore years. — The LXX. add, “And Ehud judged them till he died.” Josephus ( Antt. v. 5, § 1) seems to have read “eight years.” As to th...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This Shamgar was the third of the Judges which judged Israel. We have but a short account of him. But even this is as a Deliverer. As he rescued Israel from the Philistines, I am inclined to think th...
Judges 3:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel ,.... Or the Moabites were broken, as the Targum, that is, their forces in the land of Israel; for the land of Moab itself was not subdued and b...
Judges 3:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. Ver. 30. And the land had rest fourscore years. ] That is, To the end of fourscore years, reckoning...
Judges 3:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The land had rest fourscore years Not the whole land of Israel, but the eastern part of it, which had thus shaken off the yoke of Moab. For in the mean time the Philistines invaded the western part...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel Oppressed by Eglon; Eglon Slain by Ehud. B. C. 1336. 12 And the children of Isr...
Judges 3:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

How these are to be understood, See Poole on " Judges 3:11 " . Instead of eighty , some copies read eight years.
Judges 3:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.' The Moabites no longer came to cause trouble to Israel, for they were busy with the succession an...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - 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...
Judges 3:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ehud and the Moabites
Judges 3:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 3:11 ; Judges 5:31
Judges 3:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fourscore years — Chiefly that part of it which lay east of Jordan: for the other side of the country, which lay south — west, was even then infested by the Philistines.

Judges 3:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 3:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 3:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 3:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 3:30 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 3:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 3:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 3:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 3:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:30 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 3:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 3:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 3:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 3:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 3:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 3:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 3:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes