Judges 3:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a delivererb to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. ”

Judges 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Othniel was already distinguished in Joshua’s lifetime as a brave and successful leader. See Joshua 15:16-17 .
Judges 3:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Othniel the Kenite. The brief account of the oppression of Israel by the Aramæ ans, and of their deliverance by Othniel, is the work of D, whose familiar categories apostasy, Divine anger, oppressi...
Judges 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

deliverer . saviour. delivered . saved. Compare Luke 1:68-70 . Othniel. Compare Joshua 15:16 ; Joshua 15:17 .
Judges 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. Raised up...
Judges 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. When...
Judges 3:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Story of the Judges. Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar 1-6. Israel's actual relations with the Canaanites.
Judges 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Cried unto the Lord. — “In the time of their trouble, when they cried unto Thee, Thou heardest them from heaven; and according to Thy manifold mercies Thou gavest them saviours” ( Nehemiah 9:27 )....
Judges 3:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE ARM OF ARAM AND OF OTHNIEL Judges 3:1-11 WE come now to a statement of no small importance, which may be the cause of some perplexity. It is emphatically affirmed that God fulfilled His des...
Judges 3:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Delivered from Mesopotamian Oppression Judges 3:1-14 Our sins and failures will sometimes be so overruled as to promote the growth of our souls in the true knowledge of ourselves and of God. It...
Judges 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe; before Israel's deliverance there was a cry to God for relief. How sweet is it to see when from the first descent of grace in the heart, the soul goes forth in the ascending prayer for mercy...
Judges 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord ,.... Towards the close of the eight years' bondage, as it may be supposed, groaning under the oppressive taxes laid upon them, and the bondage th...
Judges 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, [even] Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. Ver. 9....
Judges 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When the children of Israel cried unto the Lord When they returned to him in repentance, acknowledged him to be their only Protector and Saviour, and prayed fervently for pardon and deliverance; t...
Judges 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Government of Othniel. B. C. 1336. 8 Therefore the anger of the L ORD was hot aga...
Judges 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Cried unto the Lord, i.e. prayed fervently for deliverance. Caleb's younger brother ; of which See Poole on " Judges 1:13 " .
Judges 3:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel who saved them, even Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.' “The children...
Judges 3:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS.— Judges 3:5-11 GREAT SIN AND SEVERE CHASTISEMENT CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 3:5 . And the children of Israel dwelt.] Here are two downward steps at once—a refusal to drive out...
Judges 3:9 - 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 3:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Othniel the son of Kenaz . .. and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. The controlling man It is the personal soul that is the basis of all action. Your machinery is soulless, and the true...
Judges 3:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This section introduces us into the actual narrative of the Book of Judges, the prefatory matter being now concluded. The whole book proceeds on the same model as this section does. T...
Judges 3:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Othniel Judge of Israel
Judges 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:10 ; Judges 1:13 ; Judges 10:10 ; Judges 2:16 ; Judges 3:15 ; Judges 4:3 ; Judges 6:7 ; Nehemiah 9:27 ; Psalms 106:41-44 ; Psalms 107:13-19 ; Psalms 22:5 ; Psalms 78:34
Judges 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cried — That is, prayed fervently for deliverance.

Judges 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 3:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 3:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 3:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 3:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 3:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 3:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 3:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes