Judges 1:6
Judges 2:6
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
Judges 2:11
did evil <06213 07451> [did evil.]
worshiping ... Baals <05647 01168> [and served Baalim.]
{B„ƒlim,} or lords, seems to have been the common appellation of the Syrian gods; whence we have Baal-peor, Baal-zebub, etc.
Judges 3:18
Judges 9:17
fought <03898> [fought.]
risked ... life <05315 07993> [adventured his life. Heb. cast his life.]
Judges 9:41
Arumah <0725> [Arumah.]
This place appears from the next verse to have been near Shechem; and is perhaps the same as Ruma, a village of Galilee, mentioned by Josephus, Bell. 1. iii. c. 9.
Zebul <02083> [Zebul.]
Judges 9:56
God repaid <07725 0430> [God rendered.]
Both the fratricide Abimelech and the unprincipled men of Shechem had the iniquity visited upon them of which they had been guilty. Man's judgment may be avoided; but there is no escape from that of God. How many houses have been sown with salt in France, by the just judgment of God, for the massacre of the Protestants on the eve of St. Bartholomew! See Note on ver. 45.
Judges 10:12-13
Sidonians <06722> [Zidonians.]
Amalek <06002> [Amalekites.]
Midian <04584> [the Maonites.]
The LXX. have "the Midianites," which Dr. Wall thinks the true reading. But the Maonites might be a tribe of Arabs, inhabitants of Maon. (Jos 15:55. 1Sa 23:24, 25; 25:2,) which assisted Moab.
Judges 10:16
threw away <05493> [they put.]
foreign gods <0430 05236> [strange gods. Heb. gods of strangers. his soul.]
<07114> [grieved. Heb. shortened.]
Not that there is any grief in God; he has infinite joy and happiness in himself, which cannot be broken in upon by either the sins or the miseries of his creatures. Not that there is any change in God; for he is of one mind, and who can turn him? But his goodness is his glory; by it he proclaims his name, and magnifies it; and as he is pleased to put himself into the relation of a father to his people, so he is pleased to represent his goodness to them by the compassion of a father to his children; for as he is the Father of lights, so is he the Father of mercies.
Judges 12:11
[A.M. 2830. B.C. 1174. An. Ex. Is. 317.]
"A civil judge in North-east Israel."
