Judges 2:6
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
Judges 3:17
very fat <01277 03966> [a very fat.]
Judges 7:21
stood <05975> [stood.]
camp .... army <04264> [all the host.]
Judges 7:23
Judges 8:25
Judges 13:2
Zorah <06881> [Zorah.]
infertile <06135> [barren.]
Judges 15:15-16
solid jawbone <03895 02961> [new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew.]
thousand <0505> [a thousand.]
Some would render the words {aileph ish,} "a chief;" but it is {alluph,} and not {aileph,} which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be {ish alluph,} "a man, a chief," and not {alluph ish,} "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."
jawbone ............. jawbone <03895> [with the jaw-bone.]
There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word {chamor,} "an ass," which also signifies "a heap;" {bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim,} "With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps."
<02565> [heaps upon heaps. Heb. an heap, two heaps.]
Judges 17:6
king <04428> [no king.]
right <03477> [right.]
Judges 18:11
armed <02296> [appointed. Heb. girded.]
Judges 18:16
six hundred <03967 08337> [six hundred.]
Judges 20:11
Judges 20:41
panicked <0926> [were amazed.]
doorstep <05060> [was come upon them. Heb. touched them.]
Judges 20:44
Judges 21:1
oath <07650> [had sworn.]
<0376> [There.]
daughter <01323> [his daughter.]
Judges 21:9
Judges 21:25
king <04428> [no.]
right <03477> [right.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES. 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 nation; a striking picture of the disorders and dangers which prevailed in a republic without magistracy; when "the high-ways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through by-ways," (ch. 5:6;) when few prophets were appointed to control the people, and "every one did that which was right in his own eyes." (ch. 17:6.) It exhibits the contest of true religion with superstition; and displays the beneficial effects that flow from the former, and the miseries and evil consequences of impiety. It is a most remarkable history of the long-suffering of God towards the Israelites, in which we see the most signal instances of his justice and mercy alternately displayed: the people sinned, and were punished; they repented, and found mercy. These things are written for our warning: none should presume, for God is just; none need despair, for God is merciful. Independently of the internal evidence of the authenticity of this sacred book, the transactions it records are not only cited or alluded to by other inspired writers, but are further confirmed by the traditions current among heathen nations.
