Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 of Judah. Forty years, here and elsewhere, is (like fourscore years, Judges 3:30) a round number, perhaps equivalent to a generation.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 3:11:
Judges 1:2
Judges 3:30
1 Samuel 4:18
Job 3:13
Amos 6:14
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