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 …

The land had rest forty years.—Rabbi Tanchum interprets this to mean, “until forty years after the death of Joshua.” For …

And the land had rest forty years
As it should seem from the time of this deliverance; though, according to Ben Gers…

The first judge was Othniel. Even in Joshua's time, Othniel began to be famous. Soon after Israel's settlement in Canaan, their purity began to be …