Fathers. These expressions prove the immortality of the soul, Job xxxiv. 4., &c. Knew not, or did not approve or cordially serve the Lord. His tabernacle was still at Silo. But many joined the worship of idols with that of the true God, (Calmet) and light and darkness can never agree. (Haydock)
ALL THAT GENERATION - i. e. the main body of those who were grown-up men at the time of the conquest of Canaan....
2. THE ANGEL AT BOCHIM AND THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE BOOK Chapter S 2:1-3:4 _ 1. The angel at Bochim (Judges 2:1)_ 2. Israel's obedience remembered (Judges 2:6) 3. Israel's strange gods (Judges 2:...
JUDGES 2:6 TO JUDGES 3:6. THE DEUTERONOMIST'S INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JUDGES PROPER (Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31). In the view of this interpreter of sacred history,
KNEW NOT. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). App-6. Put for obeyed not or cared not for....
_were gathered unto their fathers_ This expression (as here only in 2 Kings 22:20 = 2 Chronicles 34:28), and the commoner -was gathered unto his people" (P), referred originally to the family sepulchr...
AND ALSO ALL THAT GENERATION WERE GATHERED UNTO THEIR FATHERS— The sacred writer means evidently to speak not only of those of the Israelites who had seen the _works of God_ in Egypt, and in the wilde...
General Religious Characterization of the Period Judges 2:6 to Judges 3:6 _The Death of Joshua Judges 2:6-10_ 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his i...
_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 o...
INTRODUCTORY (JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 3:4) Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5. This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early conquest of Pa
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 V1 The *angel of the *Lord came from Gilgal to Bokim. He said ‘I brought you out of Egypt. And then I brought you into the country that I promised...
GATHERED UNTO THEIR FATHERS. — See 2 Kings 22:20, and for similar phrases, Genesis 15:15; 1 Kings 1:21; Acts 13:36, &c. Another common phrase is
וְ גַם֙ כָּל ־הַ דֹּ֣ור הַ ה֔וּא...
AMONG THE ROCKS OF PAGANISM Judges 2:7 "AND Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-he...
A GENERATION THAT KNEW NOT JEHOVAH Judges 2:6 What a thrilling experience it must have been to hear Joshua and Caleb talk of Egypt, the Red Sea, and Sinai! The younger men would stand awestruck as th...
The fact of Israel's failure is still further revealed in this chapter. In the first five verses we have the account of the coming of a messenger from Gilgal. This messenger, referred to as "the angel...
These verses have a retrospective view to the history of Joshua, as before related. And perhaps the subject is here again introduced, by way of contrasting the sad apostasy of Israel, to what their co...
The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
Alas! if such was the condition of the people, and they were satisfied with it, chastening, as at Ai, was no longer in question. But the angel of Jehovah (the operative power of God in the midst of th...
AND ALSO ALL THAT GENERATION WERE GATHERED UNTO THEIR FATHERS,.... Were dead and buried, that is, the greatest part of those that were contemporaries with the elders that outlived Joshua; for they mig...
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. Ver. 10. _And th...
_And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers_ Not only those who had beheld the wonderful works of God in Egypt, and in the wilderness, but those also who had seen Jordan dried up, t...
1 An Angel rebuketh the people at Bochim. 6 The wickednesse of the new generation after Ioshua. 14 Gods anger and pitie towards them. 20 The Canaanites are left to prooue Israel. 1 AND an [NOTE: O...
And also all that generation, all the contemporaries of Joshua, WERE GATHERED UNTO THEIR FATHERS; AND THERE AROSE ANOTHER GENERATION AFTER THEM WHICH KNEW NOT THE LORD, NOR YET THE WORKS WHICH HE HAD...
THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND ITS PUNISHMENT...
THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD (vv. 1-6) Israel's failure called for strong reproof. THE angel of the Lord, who is the Lord Himself, not A messenger from God, but THE messenger, came from Gilg...
6-23 We have a general idea of the course of things in Israel, during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as mean and miserable by forsaking God, as they would have been great and happ...
WHICH KNEW NOT THE LORD; which had no experimental nor serious and affectionate knowledge of God, nor of his works....
Judges 2:10 generation H1755 gathered H622 (H8738) fathers H1 another H312 generation H1755 arose H6965 (H8799) after...
THE CONTINUED FAILURE OF THE PEOPLE SUMMARISED WITH RESPECT TO THE DAYS THAT WERE COMING - HIS ATTEMPTS TO WOO THEM BY DELIVERANCE - AND THEIR CONTINUAL BACKSLIDING (JUDGES 2:10). Judges 2:10 ‘ And...
Judges 1 and 2 The character of Joshua is, like that of many soldiers, simple and easily understood. He was strong and of a good courage, a man, fit not only for battle, but for tedious campaigning; f...
CONTENTS: Review of Israelitish invasion of Canaan up to Joshua's death. Results of incomplete obedience. Judges instituted. CHARACTERS: God, angel of Jehovah (Jesus) Joshua. CONCLUSION: God never d...
Judges 2:1. _An Angel of the Lord._ Jewish writers in succession speak of this as a created angel: but no mere angel would dare to speak as Jehovah. It was therefore the Angel of the covenant, the sam...
_The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua._ JOSHUA AND “ANOTHER GENERATION” I. The power of a great man to adapt himself to changing circumstances, and to be equally great under varying cond...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:6. And when Joshua had let the people go.] The visit and solemn message of the angel had led to tears. The temporary repentance was so general that the place of the visit was...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 2:7 AND THE PEOPLE SERVED, etc. This verse is the epitome of the religious history of Israel from the time of the expostulation of the angel till the dying off of all those who had...
So in chapter two we read, AND the angel of the LORD came from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and brought you into the land which I sware to your fathers; and I said, I...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Samuel 2:12; 2 Samuel 7:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;...
Knew not — Which had no experimental, nor serious and affectionate knowledge of God, or of his works....