Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel,.... Because of their idolatry; see Jdg 2:14,
and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; or Aramnaharaim; that…
Barnes' Notes
Here we hold again the thread of the proper narrative, which seems as if it ought to have run thus Jdg 1:1 : Now, etc. Jdg 3:8, therefore (or “and”) etc. Served Chushan-Rishathaim - This is the same…
We now come to the records of the government of the particular judges, the first of which was Othniel, in whom the story of this book is knit to that of Joshua, for even in Joshua's time Othniel began…
Cambridge Bible
sold them See Jdg 2:14 n.
Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia The rendering Mesopotamia, i.e. the vast region between the Euphrates and Tigris, comes from the LXX; the Hebr. is Aram-naharaim-Syria…
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