Returned — To their former, and usual course. Their fathers — In Egypt, or in the wilderness. Their own doings — That is, from their evil practices, which he calls their own, because they were agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind are deeply and universally corrupted, and because they were familiar and customary to them.
Verse Judges 2:19. _WHEN THE JUDGE WAS DEAD_] It appears that in general the office of the judge was _for life_. _THEIR STUBBORN WAY._] Their _hard_ or _difficult way_. Most sinners go through great...
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:...
WHEN. Compare Judges 3:12....
_when the judge was dead … they turned back_ e.g. Judges 4:1; Judges 8:33; the whole period is a continual repetition of apostasy, subjugation, the cry for help, the deliverance such is the Dtc. edito...
_Ministry of the Judges Judges 2:16-23_ 16 Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges,...
_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...
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...
THEY CEASED NOT FROM THEIR OWN DOINGS. — Literally, as in the margin, “they let nothing fall of their deeds.” STUBBORN. — They are called “stiff-necked” in Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 10:16; Acts 7:51. T...
וְ הָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּ מֹ֣ות הַ שֹּׁופֵ֗ט יָשֻׁ֨בוּ֙
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...
INEFFECTUAL PENITENCE Judges 2:16 This paragraph is an epitome of this book, which covers some 450 years, Acts 13:20. Israel lacks unity and kingship; and in that reminds us of the heart of the man w...
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...
And did. Hebrew, "and corrupted themselves. " Septuagint, "were more depraved than," &c. --- By which, &c., is put instead of the Hebrew, "their stubborn (or hard) (Haydock) Chaldean, 'corrupt' way....
All these verses fold up in their contents the two great leading points of the gospel doctrine, namely, human depravity, and divine benignity. In the forbearance of God, and the continued provocations...
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 IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE JUDGE WAS DEAD,.... Any one of them, the first and so all succeeding ones: [THAT] THEY RETURNED; to their evil ways and idolatrous practices, from which they reformed, a...
_And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that] they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased n...
_For it repented the Lord_ That is, the Lord changed his course and dealings with them, as penitent men use to do; removed his judgments, and returned to them in mercy. _When the judge was dead they r...
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...
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, turned back to their former manner of thinking, and acting, AND CORRUPTED THEMSELVES MORE THAN THEIR FATHERS, became guilty of the ido...
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...
CORRUPTED THEMSELVES: Or, were corrupt THEY CEASED NOT FROM THEIR OWN: _ Heb._ they let nothing fall of their...
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...
THEY RETURNED to their former, and usual, and natural, though interrupted course. MORE THAN THEIR FATHERS, in Egypt or in the wilderness. FROM THEIR OWN DOINGS, i.e. from their evil practices, which h...
Judges 2:19 judge H8199 (H8802) dead H4194 reverted H7725 (H8799) corruptly H7843 (H8689) fathers H1 following...
‘ And it happened that, when the judge was dead, they turned back and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from th...
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 Lord raised up Judges._ THE JUDGES, THEIR CHOICE, FUNCTION, AND ADMINISTRATION I. These men, in some of whom the miraculous operations of the Holy Spirit were singularly manifested, were not cho...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:18. For it repented the Lord because of their groanings.] “Because the Lord had compassion upon their sighing.” [_Keil_.] “ ‘The Lord was moved with compassion,’ or ‘was grie...
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 15:23; 2 Chronicles 24:17; 2 Chronicles 24:18; Jeremiah 16:12;...