Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served (e) Baalim:
(e) That is, all manner of idols.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served (e) Baalim:
(e) That is, all manner of idols.
Verse Judges 2:11. _SERVED BAALIM_] The word בעלים _baalim_ signifies _lords_. Their false gods they considered _supernatural rulers_ or _governors_, each having his peculiar district and office; but...
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - Here begins the narrative of what really did happen “after the death of Joshua,” but of which Judges 1 conveys no hint. Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua Judge...
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,
EVIL. the evil. Hebrew. _ra_. _a_ '. See App-44. Six "evil" doings recorded in this book (App-10): Judges 3:7; Judges 3:12; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1;...
The Deuteronomist's rationale of the period of the Judges begins here. He starts with one of his recurring formulae, _did evil in the sight of the Lord_, Judges 3:7; Judges 3:12; Judges 4:1;...
AND SERVED BAALIM— The objects of false worship were called by the general name _Baalim,_ or _Lords;_ and indeed, as St. Paul remarks, the Pagans had _gods many and lords many;_ the first and chief of...
_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...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SERVED BAALIM:_ THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD. This chapter, together with the first eight verses of the n...
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
BAALIM] RV 'the Baalim,' i.e. the local gods worshipped by the Canaanites. Baalim is” the plural of Baal, which means 'lord' (cp. Judges 8:33). Each place might thus have its patron god. Jehovah was n...
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...
DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD. — Rather, “_the_ evil.” Used especially of apostasy (see Judges 3:7; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1; Judges 10:6;...
וַ יַּעֲשׂ֧וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת ־הָ רַ֖
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...
Here begins the sad account which the Holy Ghost hath caused to be recorded, of Israel's whoredom and idolatry, and which runs through all the future periods of their history, until they were unchurch...
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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... Openly and publicly, boldly and impudently, in the very face of God, and amidst all the good things they received from him, which were...
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: Ver. 11. _And served Baalim,_] _i.e., _ Lords. Hence Hannibal, Asdrubal, &c., of old; as now among the Turks, Beglerbe...
_The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord_ Which marks the heinousness and impudence of their sins, above other people's; because God's presence was with them, and his eye upon them in...
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 the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, before His very eyes, AND SERVED BAALIM, here said of all false gods, of the entire heathen worsip, for Baal was the chief male idol of al...
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...
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; which notes the heinousness and the impudence of their sins above other people's sins; because God's presence was with them, and his eye upon them, in a peculiar manner, and...
Judges 2:11 children H1121 Israel H3478 did H6213 (H8799) evil H7451 sight H5869 LORD H3068 served H5647 ...
‘ And the children of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baalim.' It was the ‘natural' thing to do. The Baalim were the main god of the land represented in the form of sta...
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 2:11 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DID... EVIL. This clear statement about Israel’s wickedness recurs throughout the book (e.g., Judges 3:7;...
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 2:7 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 Kings 18:18; 1 Samuel 7:4; 2 Chronicles 28:2; 2 Chronicles 33:2;...
In the sight — Which notes the heinousness and impudence of their sins, above other peoples; because God's presence was with them, and his eye upon them in a peculiar manner, which also they were not...