Judges 2:16

_NEVERTHELESS THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES, WHICH DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HAND OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM._ Which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. The judges who governed Israel were strictly God's vicegerents in the government of the people, He being the supreme ruler. These who were thus elevated retained the dignity, at first apparently during the public crisis only, but afterward so long as they lived; but there was no regular, unbroken succession of judges until the days of Samuel, who had transmitted the judicial office as hereditary to his sons. Individuals, prompted by the inward irresistible impulse of God's Spirit, when they witnessed the depressed state of their country, were roused to achieve its deliverance. It was usually accompanied by a special call; and the people, seeing them endowed with extraordinary courage or strength, accepted them as dele...

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 2:16. _THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES_] That is, leaders, generals, and governors, raised up by an especial appointment of the Lord, to deliver them from, and avenge them on, their adversaries. See the _preface_....

NEVERTHELESS - (rather “and”) the Lord raised up judges This is the first introduction of the term judge, which gives its name to the book. (See the introduction to the Book of Judges.)...

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

NEVERTHELESS, THE LORD RAISED UP JUDGES,.... Who are particularly mentioned by name, and their exploits recorded, in some following Chapter s, and from whom the book in general has its name: these were men that God raised up in an extraordinary manner, and spirited and qualified for the work he had to do by them; which was to deliver the people of Israel out of the hands of their oppressors, and restore them to their privileges and liberties, and protect them in them, and administer justice to them; which was a wonderful instance of the goodness of God to them, notwithstanding their many provoking sins and transgressions: WHICH DELIVERED THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM; who took away their goods and cattle from them, and carried their persons captive: these were the instruments of recovering both again, just as Abraham brought again Lot and all his goods....

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

JUDGES. This word gives the name to the book. one who put right what was wrong; hence,. ruler. DELIVERED. saved. Six deliverances: Judges 3:9; Judges 3:15; Judges 4:23; Judges 8:28; Judges 11:33; Judges 16:30....

_raised up … saved_ Phrases of the compiler, cf. Judges 2:18; Judges 3:9; Judges 3:15; Judges 3:31; Judges 10:12-13. _judges_ not in the sense of magistrates, for there was no law or tribunal in our sense at a period when "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." The "judges" were champions and leaders, called out to meet a special emergency, who vindicated Israel's rights in battle, Judges 3:10. The _suffetes_(Heb. _shôfětim_) of Carthage and the Cartha

_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, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so. 18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. 19 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 not from their own doings,