el the ſon of Kenaz died. d They had divefs Houſes and Chambers, ſome for Winter, others cooling. p Either Firſt, is reſted about fourty Years, or the greateſt part of for Summer. See fer. 36. 22. Amos 3.15. e Into which heuſed to re- Forty Years ; it being moſt frequent in Scripture to ule Numbers in | tire himſelf from company : which is mentioned as the reaſon why ſuch a Latitude, Thus the 1/raelires are ſaid to bear their iniquities his Servants waited ſo long ere they went in to him, v. 25. f To forty years in the wilderneſs, Numb. 14: 33: when there wanted near | be deliverd not in Words, but by Attions : Heb. a Word,or Thing, or two yearsof that number ; and ro dwel in Egypt 430 years, when there Buſmeſs. So that there is noneed to charge Ehud with a Lye, as tome wanted many years of that number. Thus Joſephs kindred ſent for, and | do. g This he faith to Amuſe him, by raifiag his expeQatien and calted by him into Egypr, are numbred Seventy five Souls, 4#s 7: | wonder, to divert him from any apprehenſion of his Danger, and 14: although they were bur Sev-nty, as is affirmed, Gen- 46: 27: | to oblidge him to riſe our of his Sear, which he knew he would do Exod, 1: 5: So here the land is fad to reſt forty years, although they | frem the common practice of the heathens in their intercourſes with were in ſervitude Erght of tho'e Years, v. 8: And in hike manner | God. And he delignedly uſerh the name Elobim, which was com- the land is ſaid to have reſt eighty years, though Eighteen of them they | mon to the true God, and falſe cones ; and not Jehovah, which was ſerved the King cf Moab, v. 18:: And fo in ſome other inſtances. | peculiar to the true God ; becauſe Ehud not knowing whether the Nor isit ſtrange and unuſual either in Scripture; or in other Au- Mceflzge came not from his own falſe god, he would more certain« thors, for things to be denominated from the greater part, as here | ly riſe, and thereby give Ed more advantage for his blow : where. it was; eſpecially, when they did enjoy ſome degrees of reſt and | as he would poſſibly ſhew his Contempt of the God of J/rael by peace even 3n their times of flavery, which here they did: Or, Se- ſitring ſtillro hear his Meſſage. + In roken of humble ſubje&ion cond y, it reſted, ( 7, e.) began to reſt, or recovered its interrup- | and reverence to God. See Numb. 23.18. 2 Kings 23. 3. which red reſt, in the fourtiethyear, either after Joſhuas Death, or afterthat | condemns thoſe Chriſtians that behave themſelves irreverently in ſob firſt and famous Reſt procured for them by Joſhxa, as isnored, Heb. 4; | rhe preſence and Service of the rrue God.
9: when he deſtroyed 5nd ſubdued the Cannanites, and gave them 21 And Ehud put forth his lefc hand, and took the quiet p«{ſcfſion of the Land ; and-7he land had reſt from war, as is ſaid,
SpA dagger from his right thigh, and thruſt it into his belly. == of. t1: 23: and 14: 15: Sothere is this difference between the years ; "*"7 poli 2 | Joſe 87 3346 and Opprefſion, and thoſe of Reſt, that in the Promo he 22 And the haft went in after the # blade:and the far tells us how long it Jaſted ; in the Jatter, when ir began ; by which cloſed upon the blade, # fo that he could not draw the + Heb, compared with the other years, 1t was eaſie alſo to know how long dagger out of his belly, and [ che dirt came out fo flame, fo the Reſt laſted. To ſtrengthen this Interpretation, two things muſt } 7 (5. e.) His Excrements came forth, not at the Wound, which Gr-fee Ges. be noted : I- Thar reſting is here put for the beginning to Reſt, as | cloſed up, but at the Fundamenr, as is uſual when perſons die ej-.3* 24 zo beget is put for beginning to beget, Gen. 5.32. and 11. 26, andto | ther a natural or violent Death. * = 'F Heb. be- 2ign, ſor to begin to Reign, 2 Sam. 2: 16.and to build, 1 Kings 6.15, 23 Then Ehud went forth & through the porch, ang <2u{* he
36. for to begin to build, 2 Chron. ; ps. That forty Vears 15 put for . drew nor. the fourticth year ;, the Cardinal Number for the Ordinal, which iS ſhut che doors of the parlour upon him /, and locked
So Gr. common both in the holy Scripture, as Gen. r. 5. and 2. 11. Exod- chem mM. | Or, it 12. 2. Ha. 1. 1. Mark 16: 1. and in other Authors. & With a compoſed Countenance and Gate, without any fear ; came our
12 4 And thechildren of Iſrael did evil again in the being well aſſured, rhat God who by his extrordinary Call had pur at rhe ſight of the LORD, and the LORD ſtrengthened him upon that enterpriſe, would by his ſpecial Providence preſerve funda»
] : 4 him, and carry him through it. / Either upon the King, or upon or ment. 13am. * Eglon p the king of Moab againſt Iſrael, becauſe they | after himſelf. » Either by pullingir cloſe after him, as we _ when 12:9 had done evil in the ſight of the LORD. Doors have Spring-locks ; or by taking the Key with him for more
Þ By giving him Courage, and Power, and Sncceſs againſt. them, | c2uton ; and this he did, thar rhey ſuppoſing the King to be re-
13 And he gathered unto him the children of Am- | **<4 might watt rillhe was gone. | | mon, and Amalek, and went and ſmore Iſrael, and | 24 Vn. he was gone our, his ſervants came, and poſſeſſed the city, of palm-trees q: : 3 when they ſaw, that behold the doors of the parlour
qt. e. Jericho, 85 may be gathered from Deur. 34: 3: Jude. 1: 16. | 27 locked, they faid, Surely he || covereth his feet » | Or, deth | e Chron. .8:'15: Not the City which was Demolithed, but the Ter- | his Summer-chamber. his eaſe> ritory belonging toit. Here he fixed his Camp, partly for the ad- » This Phraſe 1s uſed only here, and 1 Sm. 24. 3. It is commonly men. mirable Fertiliry of that So1l ; and partly, becauſe of irs nearneſs to | underſtood in borh places, of eating Nature ; becauſe the Men not | the paſſage over Jordan, which was commodious both for the con- | then wearing Breechs as we do, bur long Coats, they did in that | junttion ct hisown Forces which Jay on both ſides of Jordan; and | a& cover their Feet, as Women do : But a late judicious Interpre- | to prevent the conjunCtion of the 1/rae/:rgs in Canaan with their Bre- | tzr expounds it, of compoſing himſelf ro take a little Sleep or Reft, thren beyond Jordan; and to ſecure his Retreat into his own Coun- | as was very uſual to doin the day-time in thoſe hot Countreys, 2: ty, waich therefore the 1-ae/ites prevented, v. 28. Sam. 4+ 5.and 11, 12, And when they did {ſo in cool places, tuch ; 2 Ox | as.