Judges 3:19
carved images <06456> [quarries. or graven images.]
secret <05643> [a secret.]
attendants <05975> [And all that.]
Judges 3:2
experienced <03045> [might know.]
teach <03925> [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.
Judges 12:1-15
assembled <06817> [gathered. Heb. were called. Wherefore.]
burn .... down <08313> [we will burn.]
people <05971> [I and my.]
<07760> [put.]
up <05927> [wherefore.]
<0582> [and the men.]
refugees <06412> [fugitives.]
said .... Say Shibboleth .... said <0559 07641> [Say now.]
Shibboleth <07641> [Shibboleth. which signifieth a stream, or flood.]
{Shibboleth} also means an ear of corn, (Job 24:24,) and {sibboleth} signifies a burden, (Ex 6:6;) and a heavy burden they were obliged to bear who could not pronounce this test letter. It is well known that several nations cannot pronounce certain letters. The sound of th cannot be pronounced by the Persians, no more than by some of our Continental neighbours; though it is a common sound among the Arabians. To this day, many of the German Jews cannot articulate [t] th, for which they substitute ss; thus for {baith,} a house, they say {baiss.}
fell dead <05307> [there fell.]
forty-two <0705> [forty.]
{Arb„im ooshenayim aleph,} "forty and two thousand." Here the [w,] and, may mean simple addition; and this number may denote 2,040 and not 42,000. At the last census of the Israelites (Nu 26:37) the whole tribe of Ephraim only amounted to 32,500, compared with which this last number appears far too great.
Ibzan <078> [Ibzan. A.M. 2823. B.C. 1181. An. Ex. Is. 310.]
"He seems to have been only a civil judge to do justice in North-east Israel."
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
[A.M. 2830. B.C. 1174. An. Ex. Is. 317.]
"A civil judge in North-east Israel."
Aijalon <0357> [Aijalon.]
[A.M. 2840. B.C. 1164. An. Ex. Is. 327.]
"A civil judge also in North-east Israel."
sons .... grandsons <01121> [nephews. Heb. sons' sons. rode.]
Pirathonite <06553> [A.M. 2848. B.C. 1156. An. Ex.Is. 335. Pirathonite.]
hill country <02022> [in the mount.]
Judges 1:12
Caleb <03612> [And Caleb.]
The whole of this account is found in Jos 15:13-19, and seems to be inserted here by way of recapitulation.
give <05414> [to him.]
In ancient times fathers assumed an absolute right over their children, especially in disposing of them in marriage; and it was customary for a king or great man to promise his daughter in marriage to him who should take a city, etc.
Micah 6:9
Lord <03068> [Lord's.]
wise ............. assembled <08454 03259> [and.]
wise ..... authority <07200 08034 08454> [the man of wisdom shall see thy name. or, thy name shall see that which is wisdom.]
Listen <08085> [hear.]
