Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 2:15
Whithersoever they went — That is, Whatsoever expedition or business they undertook; which is usually signified by going out, and coming in.
Whithersoever they went — That is, Whatsoever expedition or business they undertook; which is usually signified by going out, and coming in.
Verse Judges 2:15. _THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM_] The _power_ which before protected them when obedient, was now turned against them because of their disobedience. They not only had not God...
Consult the marginal references. The phrase, “he sold them into the hands etc.,” is first found in Deuteronomy 32:30....
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:...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44. AS. according as. Compare Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 28....
For the threat of punishment in case of disloyalty see Deuteronomy 28:48-53 and Leviticus 26:17; Leviticus 26:36-39....
_Israel's Apostasy Judges 2:11-15_ 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the...
_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 v...
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...
THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM. — Contrast this with Joshua 1:9. AS THE LORD HAD SAID. — Leviticus 26:17; Deuteronomy 28:25, &c....
בְּ כֹ֣ל ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָצְא֗וּ יַד ־יְהוָה֙ הָיְ
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...
(g) Whithersoever they went out, the (h) 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. (g) In all their ente...
Observe in the Lord's punishment, what a correspondence between their sin and suffering. Thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Jeremiah 2:19. Reader! do not overlook the interest all God's people bear...
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...
WHITHERSOEVER THEY WENT OUT, THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM FOR EVIL,.... They prospered not in any business they undertook, or put their hands unto; or in any expedition they went upon, or whe...
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. Ver. 15. _As the Lord had sai...
_Sold them_ That is, delivered them up, as the seller doth his commodities, unto the buyer. _Whithersoever they went out_ That is, whatsoever expedition or business they undertook, which is equally si...
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...
THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND ITS PUNISHMENT...
Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, in not a single undertaking were they successful, AS THE LORD HAD SAID, AND AS THE LORD HAD SWORN UNTO THEM, Leviticus 26;...
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...
WHITHERSOEVER THEY WENT OUT, i.e. whatsoever expedition or business they undertook; which is usually signified by _going out_ and _coming in_....
Judges 2:15 out H3318 (H8804) hand H3027 LORD H3068 calamity H7451 LORD H3068 said H1696 (H8765) LORD...
‘ Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had said, and as Yahweh had sworn to them.' Because they had failed to drive out the Canaanites God would give them no...
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...
_They forsook the Lord God of their fathers._ ISRAEL’S OBSTINACY AND GOD’S PATIENCE This passage sums up the Book of Judges, and also the history of Israel for over four hundred years. Like the overt...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 2:15 AS THE LORD HAD SWORN. See Deuteronomy 28:25;...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:11. And served Baalim.] The _pl_. form indicates the different Baalim, or the different characters and modifications under which Baal, the sun-god, was worshipped, rather tha...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 2:14, JUDGES 2:15 THE ANGER OF THE LORD, etc. These verses contain an awful view of the wrath of God excited by wilful sin, and are a practical illustration of...
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 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:24; 1 Samuel 30:6; 2 Corinthians 4:8;...