Shìshījì 3:7-11

7 Yǐsèliè rén xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , wàngjì Yēhéhuá tāmende shén , qù shìfèng zhū bāLìhé yà shĕ lā ,

8 Suǒyǐ Yēhéhuá de nùqì xiàng Yǐsèliè rén fā zuò , jiù bǎ tāmen jiāo zaì Mĕisuǒbùdámǐyà wáng gǔ shān lì sà tián de shǒu zhōng . Yǐsèliè rén fúshì gǔ shān lì sà tián bā nián .

9 Yǐsèliè rén hū qiú Yēhéhuá de shíhou , Yēhéhuá jiù wèi tāmen xīngqǐ yī wèi zhĕngjiù zhĕ jiù tāmen , jiù shì Jiālè xiōngdi Jīnàsī de érzi Étuóniè .

10 Yēhéhuá de líng jiàng zaì tā shēnshang , tā jiù zuò le Yǐsèliè de shì shī , chū qù zhēng zhàn . Yēhéhuá jiāng Mĕisuǒbùdámǐyà wáng gǔ shān lì sà tián jiāo zaì tā shǒu zhōng , tā biàn shēng le gǔ shān lì sà tián .

11 Yúshì guó zhōng taìpíng sì shí nián . Jīnàsī de érzi Étuóniè sǐ le .

Shìshījì 3:7-11 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.