Judges 2:14

_AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF SPOILERS THAT SPOILED THEM, AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT ANY_ _ LONGER STAND BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES._ The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel - adversities in close and rapid succession befell them. But all these calamities were designed only as chastisements, a course of correctional discipline by which God brought His people to see and repent of their errors; for, as they returned to faith and allegiance he "raised up judges" (Judges 2:16) х_ SHOPªTIYM_ (H8199), rulers, chiefs] from Joshua to Samuel....

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 happy if they had continued faithful to him. Their punishment answered to the evil they had done. They served the gods of the nations round about them, even the meanest, and God made them serve the princes of the nations round about them, even the meanest. Those who have found God true to his promises, may be sure that he will be as true to his threatenings. He might in justice have abandoned them, but he could not for pity do it. The Lord was with the judges when he raised them up, and so they became saviours. In the days of the greatest distress of the church, there shall be some whom God will find or make fit to help it. The Israelites were not thoroughly reformed; so mad were they upon their...

Verse Judges 2:14. _THE HANDS OF SPOILERS_] Probably _marauding parties_ of the Canaanites, making frequent incursions in their lands, carrying away cattle, spoiling their crops, c....

Consult the marginal references. The phrase, “he sold them into the hands etc.,” is first found in Deuteronomy 32:30....

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 Exodus 20:5 : "_I am a jealous God_." Compare Psalms 79:5, which shows how closely allied the notions of _anger_ and _jealousy_ are in Hebrew. HE SOLD THEM. A forcible expression, implying the handing over of the people into the hands of their enemies, as if God had no more any property in them or concern about them; as if he said, "Ye

AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS HOT AGAINST ISRAEL,.... For the idolatries they were guilty of; it burned within him, it broke forth, and was poured out like fire on them, and consumed them; see Nahum 1:6; AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF SPOILERS THAT SPOILED THEM; that rifled their houses, and plundered them of their goods and substance: AND HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT; the is, delivered them into their hands, who carried them captive, where they were as men sold for slaves; see Psalms 44:12; and this was in just retaliation, that as they had said themselves to work wickedness, the Lord sold them into the hands of their enemies for their wickedness; and, as they had followed the gods of the people round about them, so he delivered them up,

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 2:11) 4. Israel's history under the judges outlined (Judges 2:16) 5. The nations left to prove Israel (Judges 2:19; Judges 3:1) The opening event of this chapter is significant. The Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. This Angel is J

SPOILERS... ENEMIES. _Six_ oppressors and servitudes named: Judges 3:8; Judges 3:12; Judges 4:2; Judges 6:1; Judges 10:7; Judges 13:1....

_delivered them into the hands of spoilers_ So 2 Kings 17:20. The Dtc. compiler summarizes in general terms the various nations who were allowed to chastise Israel; there were _spoilers_(Judges 2:16) such as the Midianites, _oppressors_(Judges 2:18) such as the Philistines. _Spoilers_, Hebr. _shôsim_, is the same word as the Egyptian name, borrowed from Semitic, for the robber Bedouin of the desert, _shasu_; Müller, _Asien u. Europa_, p. 131. _sold them_ One of the compiler's phrases, Judges 3:8; Judges 4:2; Judges cf....

_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 land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. 13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. 14 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. 15 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. _10._ What were Baalim?...