The two articles of the covenant here specified (compare margin references) are those which the Israelites had at this time broken. The other important prohibition Deuteronomy 7:3 is not specified by the Angel, and this is an indication that at the time the Angel spoke, intermarriages with the pagan spoken of Judges 3:6 had not taken place; and this again is another evidence of the early date of this occurrence.
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 1:1 TO JUDGES 2:5. THE CONQUESTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE ISRAELITES IN WESTERN PALESTINE. From this introduction, which is one of the most valuable parts of early Hebrew history, we learn that t...
YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE. Compare Exodus 23:32.Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:5, &c. YE SHALL THROW DOWN. Compare Exodus 34:12
_this land_ After -this land" the LXX inserts -nor shall ye worship their gods, but their graven images ye shall break to pieces," an addition of no critical value. _break down their altars_ Exodus 34...
Judges 2:1-5. _The angel of Jehovah moves from Gilgal; he rebukes Israel's unfaithfulness. Origin of Bochim_ This section connects with ch. 1. The going up of the Angel of Jehovah from Gilgal to Beth...
DISCOURSE: 262 THE DANGER OF INDECISION Judges 2:1. 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 winch I sware...
_Angel of the Lord Rebukes Israel Judges 2:1-5_ 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 unt...
_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...
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...
AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE. — This is the _condition_ of the Covenant, quoted from Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 12:2. Comp. Exodus 23:31;...
וְ אַתֶּ֗ם לֹֽא ־תִכְרְת֤וּ בְרִית֙ לְ יֹֽושׁ
AT BOCHIM: THE FIRST PROPHET VOICE Judges 2:1 FROM the time of Abraham on to the settlement in Canaan the Israelites had kept the faith of the one God. They had their origin as a people in a decisive...
FLAGGING IN THEIR GREAT TASK Judges 1:16; Judges 2:1 The conquest of Canaan was very partial. Israel dwelled among the ancient inhabitants of the land, much as the Normans did among the Anglo-Saxons,...
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...
The angel of the Lord came to the people and told them he would no longer fight for them because they had failed to follow his directions. They had made covenants with the people in direct violation o...
League. None of a public nature had been perhaps made by the whole nation, to sanction the idolatry of the Chanaanites. But so many individuals had entered into marriages with them and imitated their...
I beg the Reader to remark with me the leading feature in the character of this angel, and then let him determine for himself whether it was not the Angel of the Covenant, even the Lord Jesus Christ....
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 YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND,.... This the Lord charged them not to do, when he covenanted with them, and assured them of bringing them into the land; and yet they had...
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? Ver. 2. _Why have ye done this?_] Can you give...
_Ye shall make no league_, &c. These express and frequently-repeated commands of God they had disobeyed. _Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out_, &c. That is, I have now taken up this perem...
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 ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, never enter into entangling alliances with them; YE SHALL THROW DOWN THEIR ALTARS, utterly destroy all evidences of idolatry. BUT YE HAVE...
THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...
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...
1-5 It was the great Angel of the covenant, the Word, the Son of God, who spake with Divine authority as Jehovah, and now called them to account for their disobedience. God sets forth what he had don...
i.e. Disobeyed these express commands of mine?...
Judges 2:2 make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) land H776 down H5422 (H8799) altars...
THE ANGEL OF YAHWEH QUESTIONS WHY THEY HAVE BEEN DISOBEDIENT AND THE PEOPLE MAKE A SHOW OF REPENTANCE (JUDGES 2:1). Judges 2:1 a ‘ And the Angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said,...
Judges 2:1 This is clearly an incident to arrest our attention and to arouse our curiosity. Let us inquire: (1) Who this angel was? (2) What the meaning of "Gilgal" and "Bochim" is; and (3) What sign...
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...
_An angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim._ THE ISRAELITES AT BOCHIM I. The Assembly convened: “All the children of Israel.” II. The messenger employed. This “angel of the Lord “ is said t...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 2:2 Israel had disobeyed God’s commands. See Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:12;...
_THE BEGINNING OF THE LORD’S REBUKE_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:1. An angel of the Lord.] Not merely “_a messenger_,” but the “_angel of Jehovah_.” “The phrase is used nearly sixty times to designate...
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...
1 Peter 4:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Deuteronomy 12:2;...
Done this — That is, disobeyed these express commands....