Seirath - “ The forest” or “weald,” which evidently bordered on the cultivated plain near Gilgal, and extended into “the mountain or hill co…

To Seirath. —Perhaps, rather, into the bush, or woodland, as the word has the article and does not occur again. …

And Ehud escaped while they tarried
While the servants of the king of Moab tarried waiting for the opening of the do…

When Israel sins again, God raises up a new oppressor. The Israelites did evil, and the Moabites did worse; yet because God punishes the sins of Hi…