Judges 3:5-8

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.

Othniel

7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,^[a] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.

Judges 3:5-8 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.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 106:35
• 2. S Joshua 3:10
• 3. S Joshua 11:3; Ezra 9:1
• 4. Ezra 10:18; Nehemiah 13:23; Malachi 2:11
• 5. S Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4
• 6. S Deuteronomy 7:16
• 7. Deuteronomy 4:9; S Deuteronomy 32:18; Judges 8:34; Psalms 78:11,42; Psalms 106:7; Jeremiah 23:27
• 8. S Exodus 34:13; S Judges 2:11,13; 1 Kings 16:33; 2 Chronicles 34:7; Isaiah 17:8
• 9. Judges 2:14; Psalms 44:12; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 52:3
• 10. ver 10
• 11. S Genesis 24:10

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, Northwest Mesopotamia