a buſites. doubrleſs moſt aflifted by him ; and hence God raiſeth a D-liverer, righe rxol RS Fg cook their daughters to be their wives, | * W hich is here noted, partly, as a mark Of his Courage, & Strength, hand. 3 x0: , 4
£ - - | and AQtivity : See Jud. 20: 16. and principally, as a conſiderable 4:16 and gav? their daughters to their ſons, and ſerved ther | j.cunAance in the following Story, whereby. he might more ad-
Jute 7'3* pgds b. vantagiouſly and unſuſpe&edly give the deadly blow. þ Were drawn to Idolatry by the perſwaſions and examples of 16 But Ehud made him a dagger ( which had two
their Yoke-fellows, through the juſt judgment of God, puniſhing edges ) of a cubit length r, 'and he did gird it under their ſinfal Marriages by giving them up to 1dolatry-.
7 And the children of Iſrael did evil in the ſight of the his raiment, upon his right thigh .
. # Long enough for his deſign, and not too long for carriage and LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and fer ved | concealment. # Which was moſt convenient both for the ule of his
Baalim and the groves 7z. left hand, and for the avoiding of ſuſpicion. :
# (#. e.) In the Groves, in which the Heathens uſually Worſhip- 17 And he brought the preſent x unto Eglon king of ped their Baalims or Ido)s. Or, the Groves are here put Meronymi- Mogh: gnd Eglon was a very fat man y. cally for the Idols of the Groves, which are diſtinguiſhed here from | 174i oh ue robe paid to him as a part of his Tribute. y And their Baalm, which ſeem to have been worſhipped in other places, | 1. .cre more unweildly and unable to ward off Ehuds blow. as the prophets of Baal are diſtinguiſhed from the prophets of the Groves, 13 And when he had made an end to offer the pre- : $4 ThZefor e the anger of the LORD was hot a- ſent,he ſentaway the people that bare the preſent z. 116.3.7- gainſt Iſrael, and he fold them into the hand of *Chu- | , He accompanies. Sn Anes of the way, and then | cilmated
M , : : : them, and returned to Eglon alone, that ſo he might have more tb {han-rifhathaim king of F Meſoptamia : and the children | eafie acceſs to him, and privacy with him ; that he might the bet-
Am of Iſrael ſerved Chulhan-riſhathaim & eight years. ter make his eſcape. :
hare , C, , ) Were made ſubjeCt and tributary to him- 19 Bur he himſelf turned again a from the [| quarries [or, gra= 9 And when the children of 1ſrael cried / unto the | þ that ere by Gilgal, and faid, I have a ſecret errand ven umas
LORD, the LORD raiſed up a Þ deliverer to the | unto thee, O king : who ſaid, Keep filencc- And ges-
gs | t#. children of Ifrae], ever * Othniel the ſon of Kenaz, | all that ſtood by him went ou: from him.
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gore C2lebs younger brother ms. a As if he had forgot and negle&ted ſome importunat buſineſs. vere | *Ch.tv13e © ( 5. , 3 Pr Wed fervently for deliverance. » Of which ſee on | 5 Either, Firſt, Whence they bewed ſtones: Or, Secondly, The pt. Judges 1: 13. ; Twelve ſtones which 7oſhuaſet up there ; by the ſight whereofhe was they
*5 IT - animated ro his Work. Or, Thirdly, The ldols, as the Word alfo TO? 19 —_- _—_ i ON ns hy _ ſignifies, which thar Heathen King might place there, either in fall 2”; 109» 7, al: 1 5 3
6 x 8 : ſpvight and contempt to the 1/rae/ites who had that place in great Ve. 4 ag the LORD delivered Chuſhan-riſhathaim king of Þ | neration: or, that he mighr aſcribe his Conqueſt of the Land to his Heb.
Meſopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed | Idols, as the 1razlites did to the true God, by ſetting up this Mo- _— againlt Chuſhan-riſhathaim. - nument in the entrance or beginning of it. c Till my Servants be n With extraordinary Influences, indowing him with ſingular Bear ww _oaoinces with a buſineſs which witdom, and courage, and reſolution ; and ſtirring him up to this | ** en" Eh q Zreat and £10 CO OED Og 7 great undertaking, Compare Juag. 6. 34. and 11. 29. 0 (4. e, ) Plea- oO 41N ud came unto nim, and ne was fitting 1n ded and avenged the cauſe of Jae! againſt their oppreſſours; as | | a ſummer-parlour 4, which he had for himſelfalone that Phraſe is ofc uſed, as Deut. 32. 36+ Z/al. 10. 18, and 43- 1- © |e 3 and Ehud faid, IT havea meſſage ffrom God g, un- + xs. a 11 And the land had reſt forty years p, and Othni- | to thee. And he aroſe out of his feat b, parlourof