Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
saviours--There will be in the kingdom yet to come no king, but a prince; the sabbatic period of the judges will return (comparethe phrase so frequent in Judges, only once found in the times of the kings, 2 Chronicles 14:1, "the land had rest"), when there was no visible king, but God reigned in the theocracy. Israelites, not strangers, shall dispense justice to a God-fearing people (Isaiah 1:26; Eze. 45:1-25). The judges were not such a burden to the people as the kings proved afterwards (1 Samuel 8:11-20). In their time the people more readily repented than under the kings (compare 2 Chronicles 15:17), [ROOS]. Judges were from time to time raised up as saviours or deliverers of Israel from the enemy. These, and the similar deliverers in the long subsequent age of Antiochus, the Maccabees, who conquered the Idumeans (as here foretold, compare II Maccabees 10:15,23), were types of the peaceful period yet to come to Israel.
to judge . . . Esau--to punish (so "judge," 1 Samuel 3:13) . . . Edom (compare Obadiah 1:1-9, Obadiah 1:15-19). Edom is the type of Israel's and God's last foes (Isaiah 63:1-4).
kingdom shall be the Lord's--under Messiah (Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:14, Daniel 7:27; Zechariah 14:9; Luke 1:33; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 19:6).
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