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Text -- Judges 3:26 (NET)

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3:26 Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Ehud son of Bilhan son of Jediael son of Benjamin; a war chief,son of Gera (Bela Benjamin); a judge of Israel before King Saul
 · Seirah a town of Ephraim


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Seirath | SEIRAH | Quarries | Moabite | MOAB | Judge | JUDGES, PERIOD OF | Israel | God | Gilgal | Eglon | EHUD | Deception | BEYOND | more
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JFB: Jdg 3:21-26 - -- The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm...

The whole circumstance of this daring act--the death of Eglon without a shriek, or noise--the locking of the doors--the carrying off the key--the calm, unhurried deportment of Ehud--show the strength of his confidence that he was doing God service.

Clarke: Jdg 3:26 - -- Passed beyond the quarries - Beyond the pesilim , which appear to have been the Moabitish borders, where they had set up those hewn stones as landma...

Passed beyond the quarries - Beyond the pesilim , which appear to have been the Moabitish borders, where they had set up those hewn stones as landmarks, or sacred boundary stones.

TSK: Jdg 3:26 - -- the quarries : Jdg 3:19

the quarries : Jdg 3:19

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Barnes: Jdg 3:26 - -- Seirath - " The forest"or "weald,"which evidently bordered on the cultivated plain near Gilgal, and extended into "the mountain or hill country ...

Seirath - " The forest"or "weald,"which evidently bordered on the cultivated plain near Gilgal, and extended into "the mountain or hill country of Ephraim."Once there, he was safe from pursuit (compare 1Sa 13:6), and quickly collected a strong force of Ephraimires and probably the bordering Benjamites.

Haydock: Jdg 3:26 - -- Confusion. Hebrew, "tarrying," as they waited a long time before they ventured to open the door.

Confusion. Hebrew, "tarrying," as they waited a long time before they ventured to open the door.

Gill: Jdg 3:26 - -- And Ehud escaped while they tarried,.... While the servants of the king of Moab tarried waiting for the opening of the doors of the parlour, this gave...

And Ehud escaped while they tarried,.... While the servants of the king of Moab tarried waiting for the opening of the doors of the parlour, this gave him time enough to make his escape, so as to be out of the reach of pursuers; or else the sense is, that even when they had opened the doors, and found the king dead, while they were in confusion at it, not knowing what to ascribe it to, the dagger being enclosed in the wound, and perhaps but little blood, if any, issued out, being closed up with fat, and so had no suspicion of his being killed by Ehud; but rather supposing it to be an accidental fall from his seat, and might call in the physicians to examine him, and use their skill, if there were any hopes of recovery; all which prolonged time, and facilitated the escape of Ehud:

and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath; he got beyond the quarries, which were by Gilgal, which shows that it could not be at Jericho where the king of Moab was, as Josephus thinks, but either in his own country beyond Jordan, though no mention is made of Ehud's crossing Jordan, or however some place nearer the fords of Jordan; since Gilgal, from whence he returned, and whither he came again after he had killed the king of Moab, lay on that side of Jericho which was towards Jordan; and this Seirath he escaped to was in or near the mountain of Ephraim, as appears from Jdg 3:27,, but of it we have no account elsewhere; but it is thought by some learned men l to be the place where Seth's pillars stood, and they to be the engravings here spoken of, which we translate "quarries": the words of Josephus m are, that the posterity of Seth, who very much studied astronomy, having heard that Adam foretold the destruction of the universe at one time by fire, and at another by water, erected two pillars, one of stone, and the other of brick, on which they inscribed their inventions (in astronomy), that they might be preserved, and which remain to this day in the land of Siriad; but this account of Josephus seems to be taken from a fabulous relation of Manetho, the Egyptian, and is abundantly confuted by Dr. Stillingfleet n. Jarchi interprets this of Seirath, a thick wood or forest, the trees of which grew as thick as the hair on a man's head, and so a proper place to escape to, and hide in: it may be it was the woody part of the mount Ephraim, see Jos 17:18.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

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TSK Synopsis: Jdg 3:1-31 - --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 f...

MHCC: Jdg 3:12-30 - --When Israel sins again, God raises up a new oppressor. The Israelites did ill, and the Moabites did worse; yet because God punishes the sins of his ow...

Matthew Henry: Jdg 3:12-30 - -- Ehud is the next of the judges whose achievements are related in this history, and here is an account of his actions. I. When Israel sins again God ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Jdg 3:26-28 - -- Ehud had escaped whilst the servants of Eglon were waiting, and had passed the stone quarries and reached Seirah. Seirah is a place that is never m...

Constable: Jdg 3:7--17:1 - --II. THE RECORD OF ISRAEL'S APOSTASY 3:7--16:31   ...

Constable: Jdg 3:12-30 - --1. Oppression under the Moabites and deliverance through Ehud 3:12-30 The Moabites and Ammonites...

Guzik: Jdg 3:1-31 - --Judges 3 - The First Three Judges A. The pagan nations left in Israel's midst. 1. (1-2) God's reason for allowing these nations to continue in Israe...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Judges (Book Introduction) JUDGES is the title given to the next book, from its containing the history of those non-regal rulers who governed the Hebrews from the time of Joshua...

JFB: Judges (Outline) THE ACTS OF JUDAH AND SIMEON. (Jdg 1:1-3) ADONI-BEZEK JUSTLY REQUITED. (Jdg. 1:4-21) SOME CANAANITES LEFT. (Jdg 1:22-26) AN ANGEL SENT TO REBUKE THE ...

TSK: Judges (Book Introduction) The book of Judges forms an important link in the history of the Israelites. It furnishes us with a lively description of a fluctuating and unsettled...

TSK: Judges 3 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Jdg 3:1, The nations which were left to prove Israel; Jdg 3:5, By communion with them they commit idolatry; Jdg 3:8, Othniel delivered th...

Poole: Judges (Book Introduction) BOOK OF JUDGES THE ARGUMENT THE author of this book is not certainly known, whether it was Samuel, or Ezra, or some other prophet; nor is it mate...

Poole: Judges 3 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 3 The nations left to prove Israel mentioned, Jud 3:1-4 . The Israelites marrying their daughters, and serving their gods, they are deliver...

MHCC: Judges (Book Introduction) The book of Judges is the history of Israel during the government of the Judges, who were occasional deliverers, raised up by God to rescue Israel fro...

MHCC: Judges 3 (Chapter Introduction) (Jdg 3:1-7) The nations left to prove Israel. (Jdg 3:8-11) Othniel delivers Israel. (v. 12-30) Ehud delivers Israel from Eglon. (Jdg 3:31) Shamgar ...

Matthew Henry: Judges (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Judges This is called the Hebrew Shepher Shophtim , the Book of Judges, which the Syria...

Matthew Henry: Judges 3 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter, I. A general account of Israel's enemies is premised, and of the mischief they did them (Jdg 3:1-7). II. A particular account of...

Constable: Judges (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The English title, Judges, comes to us from the Latin translation (...

Constable: Judges (Outline) Outline I. The reason for Israel's apostasy 1:1-3:6 A. Hostilities between the Israelites an...

Constable: Judges Judges Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan. Land of the Bible. Phildelphia: Westminster Press, 1962. ...

Haydock: Judges (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. THE BOOK OF JUDGES. This Book is called Judges, because it contains the history of what passed under the government of the judge...

Gill: Judges (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interpreters ...

Gill: Judges 3 (Chapter Introduction) 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, Jdg 3:1; an...

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