Judges 3:11
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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.
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