Judges 3:11
Ver. 11. And the land had rest forty years,.... As it should seem from the time of this deliverance; though, according to Ben Gersom and Abarbinel, the eight years' servitude are to be included in them; and Bishop Usher {r} reckons these forty years from the rest first settled in the land by Joshua; but the former sense seems best:
and Othniel the son of Kenaz died: not at the end of the forty years; it is not likely he should live so long, but when he died is not certain; Eusebius {s} says he judged Israel fifty years.
{r} Anual. Vet. Test. p. 42. {s} Evangel. Praepar. l. 1O. c. 14. p. 502.