Judg 3:1-4 | TSK | STEP | The nations which were left to prove Israel. By communion with them they commit idolatry. Othniel delivered them from Chushan-rishathaim; Ehud from Eglon; and Shamgar from the Philistines. A.M. 2561. B.C. 1443. An. Ex. Is. 48. the nations. prove. as had not.

Judges 3:1-4

1 The nations which were left to prove Israel.

5 By communion with them they commit idolatry.

8 Othniel delivered them from Chushan-rishathaim;

12 Ehud from Eglon;

31 and Shamgar from the Philistines.

A.M. 2561. B.C. 1443. An. Ex. Is. 48. the nations.

2:21,22; De 7:22

prove.

De 8:2,16; 2Ch 32:31; Job 23:10; Pr 17:3; Jer 6:27; 17:9,10

Zec 13:9; Joh 2:24; 1Pe 1:7; 4:12; Re 2:23

as had not.

2:10

might know.

Ge 2:17; 3:5,7; 2Ch 12:8; Mt 10:34-39; Joh 16:33; 1Co 9:26,27

Eph 6:11-18; 1Ti 6:12; 2Ti 2:3; 4:7

to teach.Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight, that they might be the instruments of destruction to the wicked nations on whom the curse rested; but now that they had forfeited His favour, they must learn what it is to fight like other men.

five lords.

10:7; 14:4; Jos 13:3; 1Sa 4:1,2; 6:18; 13:5,19-23; 29:2

Canaanites.

4:2,23,24; Ge 10:15-19; Nu 13:29

Sidonians.

10:12; 18:7; Ge 49:13; Jos 11:8-13; 19:28

in mount.

Nu 34:8; De 1:7; 3:9; Jos 11:3; 13:5

to prove.

1; 2:22; Ex 15:25; De 33:8; 1Co 11:19; 2Th 2:9-12