Let the people go — When he had distributed their inheritances, and dismissed them severally to take possession of them. This was done before this time, whilst Joshua lived; but is now repeated to discover the time, and occasion of the peoples defection from God, and of God's desertion of them.
Verse Judges 2:6. _WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO_] The author of this book is giving here a history of the people, from the division of the land by Joshua to the time in which the angel speaks. J...
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,
LET THE PEOPLE GO. Compare Joshua 24:28....
_had sent the people away and_ J _._ SENT _the people away_(exactly as Joshua 24:28) from the great assembly at Shechem, at which the covenant had been renewed, and Joshua had delivered his parting ex...
AND WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO— This is an important passage, and by some interpreters misunderstood; they have fancied, that in it the historian continues the relation of what had happened sin...
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 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. 2...
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
Cp. Joshua 24:28. Evidently the beginning and not the end of conquest is here referred to. In the OT. Canaan is never regarded as a land of rest....
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...
WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO. — Rather, _And Joshua let the people go._ This passage strongly tends to support the view that the events of the previous chapter, and the message at Bochim, occurre...
וַ יְשַׁלַּ֥ח יְהֹושֻׁ֖עַ אֶת ־הָ עָ֑ם וַ
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...
And when Joshua had (b) let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. (b) After that he had divided to every man his portion by lot, (Joshua 24:28...
And Josue, &c. This is here inserted out of Josue, (xxiv.) by way of recapitulation of what had happened before, and by way of an introduction to that which follows. (Challoner) --- The sacred penman...
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 WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO,.... This is not to be connected with what goes before, as if that was done in Joshua's lifetime; for during that, as is after testified, the people of Israel ser...
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. Ver. 6. _And when Joshua had let the people go._] See Joshua 2:1; but Vatablus's...
_And when Joshua_ It should rather be rendered, _Now when Joshua_, &c. For it does not relate to the preceding story, but is a repetition of what was declared Joshua 24:28, and is here recorded by way...
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 when Joshua had let the people go, literally, "And Joshua sent away the people"; for here the narrative is continued from the last paragraph of the Book of Joshua, in almost the identical words, J...
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...
WHEN JOSHUA HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO; when he had distributed their inheritances, and dismissed them severally to take possession of them. This was done before this time, whilst Joshua lived; but is now...
Judges 2:6 Joshua H3091 dismissed H7971 (H8762) people H5971 children H1121 Israel H3478 went H3212 (H8799) each...
A FLASHBACK TO THE DAYS OF JOSHUA AND THE DAYS OF FAITHFULNESS (JUDGES 2:6). Judges 2:6 ‘ Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to posses...
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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 2:6__ The recurring downward cycle of history presented in Judges 2:16 is such that “whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt__ than their fathers” ...
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 It is often extremely difficult to make out the _sequence_ of a Hebrew narrative, the narrator going back and travelling over the same ground in respect _of time _which he had already trave...
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...
Joshua 22:6; Joshua 24:28...