_AND AN ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UP FROM GILGAL TO BOCHIM, AND SAID, I MADE YOU TO GO UP OUT OF EGYPT, AND HAVE BROUGHT YOU UNTO THE LAND WHICH I SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS; AND I SAID, I WILL NEVER BREAK MY COVENANT WITH YOU._ An angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. Jewish commentators gene... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND; YE SHALL THROW DOWN THEIR ALTARS: BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE: WHY HAVE YE DONE THIS?_ But ye have not obeyed my voice. The burden of the angel's remonstrance was, that God would inviolably keep His promise; but they, by their flag... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE I ALSO SAID, I WILL NOT DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU; BUT THEY SHALL BE AS THORNS IN YOUR SIDES, AND THEIR GODS SHALL BE A SNARE UNTO YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPAKE THESE WORDS UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THE PEOPLE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT._ The people lifted up their voice, and wept. The angel's expostulation made a deep and painful impression, and they engaged in a solemn act of worship... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE BOCHIM: AND THEY SACRIFICED THERE UNTO THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT EVERY MAN UNTO HIS INHERITANCE TO POSSESS THE LAND._ And when Joshua had let the people go. This passage is a repetition of Josh. 24:39-31 , and it was inserted here to put the reader in possession of the reasons which called forth... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PEOPLE SERVED THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, AND ALL THE DAYS OF THE ELDERS THAT OUTLIVED JOSHUA, WHO HAD SEEN ALL THE GREAT WORKS OF THE LORD, THAT HE DID FOR ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SERVED BAALIM:_ THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD. This chapter, together with the first eight verses of the next, contains a brief but comprehensive summary of the principles developed in the following history... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, WHICH BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND FOLLOWED OTHER GODS, OF THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE ROUND ABOUT THEM, AND BOWED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM, AND PROVOKED THE LORD TO ANGER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD, AND SERVED BAAL AND ASHTAROTH._ Ashtaroth - also a plural word, denoting all the female divinities, especially Astarte, the Syrian Venus, whose rites were celebrated by the most gross and revolting impurities. 'In every case where the Israelites acted thus, God revoked H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF SPOILERS THAT SPOILED THEM, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT ANY_ _ LONGER STAND BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES._ The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel - adver... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHITHERSOEVER THEY WENT OUT, THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM FOR EVIL, AS THE LORD HAD SAID, AND AS THE LORD HAD SWORN UNTO THEM: AND THEY WERE GREATLY DISTRESSED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES, WHICH DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HAND OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM._ Which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. The judges who governed Israel were strictly God's vicegerents in the government of the people, He being the supreme ruler. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YET THEY WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEIR JUDGES BUT THEY WENT A WHORING AFTER OTHER GODS AND BOWED_ _ AND YET THEY WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEIR JUDGES, BUT THEY WENT A WHORING AFTER OTHER GODS, AND BOWED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM: THEY TURNED QUICKLY OUT OF THE WAY WHICH THEIR FATHERS WALKED IN, OBEYIN... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL; AND HE SAID, BECAUSE THAT THIS PEOPLE HATH TRANSGRESSED MY COVENANT WHICH I COMMANDED THEIR FATHERS, AND HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO MY VOICE;_ The Lord ... said, Because ... It is not said through what prophet this announcement was made. Being apparen... [ Continue Reading ]