John Gill Commentary Judges 3:5

John Gill Commentary

Judges 3:5

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Judges 3:5

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:" — Judges 3:5 (ASV)

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites
As if they had been only sojourners with them, and not conquerors of them; and dwelt by sufferance, and not as proprietors and owners; such were their sloth and indolence, and such the advantage the inhabitants of the land got over them through it, and through their compliances with them; and this was the case not only of one sort of them, the Canaanites, but of the rest:

the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
Jebusites ;
who all had cities in the several parts of the land, with whom the children of Israel were mixed, and with whom they were permitted to dwell.