Richter 3:11

Schlachter Bibel

Da hatte das Land vierzig Jahre lang Ruhe. Als aber Otniel, der Sohn Kenas, starb.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und das Land hatte Ruhe vierzig Jahre. Und Othniel, der Sohn Kenas', starb.

Lutherbible (1912)
Da ward das Land still vierzig Jahre. Und Othniel, der Sohn Kenas, starb.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the land: Judges 3:30, Judges 5:31, Judges 8:28, Joshua 11:23, Esther 9:22

Othniel: Judges 3:9, Joshua 15:17, 1 Chronicles 4:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:15 - rest Joshua 14:15 - And the land Judges 2:19 - when the Judges 10:11 - children Judges 11:26 - three hundred 1 Samuel 7:15 - judged 2 Chronicles 14:6 - for the land Nehemiah 9:28 - did evil again

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land - means here, as in Judges 1:2, not the whole land of Canaan, but the part concerned, probably the land of the tribe of Judah. Forty years, here and elsewhere, is (like fourscore years, Judges 3:30) a round number, perhaps equivalent to a generation.