Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“Charge behind me to wipe out all the Moabites on our side of the Yardein. Took control of the Yardein passes so that the Moabites could not cross to escape and return to their country.”
The interpretation timeline
Judg 3:28
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Jewish · 1 Catholic · 1 Reformed
Judg 3:28 · Douay-Rheims
“And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our enemies the Moabites into our hands. And they went down after him, and seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which are in the way to Moab: and they suffered no man to pass over.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
744 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Fords. That none, from the other side, might come to the assistance of the Moabites, (Menochius) who were at their prince’s court, in the territory of Jericho, and that none of these might make their escape. (Haydock)”
1871
A.D.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Reformed
1871
“they went down after him, and took the fords--(See on Jos 2:7). With the view of preventing all escape to the Moabite coast, and by the slaughter of ten thousand men [Jdg 3:29], Ehud rescued his country from a state of ignominious vassalage.”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.