What does Judges 2:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Therefore the LORD leftf those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua."
Verse Judges 2:23. _WITHOUT DRIVING THEM OUT HASTILY_] Had God expelled all the ancient inhabitants at _once_, we plainly see, from the subsequent conduct of the people, that they would soon have aba...
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:...
DRIVING THEM OUT. dispossessing....
Taking this verse as the conclusion of Judges 2:20, the emphasis falls on _hastily_, i.e. during Joshua's life-time; the nations were not destroyed all at once, because Jehovah wished to test the fide...
_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,...
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 Palestine, told from a somewhat differe...
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...
וַ יַּנַּ֤ח יְהוָה֙ אֶת ־הַ גֹּויִ֣ם הָ אֵ֔לֶּה לְ בִלְתִּ֥י הֹורִישָׁ֖ם מַהֵ֑ר וְ לֹ֥א...
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...
INEFFECTUAL PENITENCE Judges 2:16 This paragraph is an epitome of this book, which covers some 450 years, Acts 13:20. Israel lacks unity and kingship; and in that reminds us of the heart of the man w...
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...
All these verses fold up in their contents the two great leading points of the gospel doctrine, namely, human depravity, and divine benignity. In the forbearance of God, and the continued provocations...
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...
THEREFORE THE LORD LEFT THESE NATIONS, WITHOUT DRIVING THEM OUT HASTILY,.... Left them unsubdued, or suffered them to continue among the Israelites, and did not drive them out as he could have done; w...
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. Ver. 23. _Therefore the Lord left those nations._] Those mentioned in the b...
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...
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 Gil...
LEFT: Or, suffered...
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...
HASTILY, or _speedily_; when the Israelites desired it and needed it....
Judges 2:23 LORD H3068 left H3240 (H8686) nations H1471 without H1115 out H3423 (H8687) immediately H4118 deliver H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 Joshua H3091 left - or, suffered, Judges 2:23...
‘ So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out quickly, neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.' Here the writer makes plain the truth. Yahweh had known all along that His peop...
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;...
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 Lord raised up Judges._ THE JUDGES, THEIR CHOICE, FUNCTION, AND ADMINISTRATION I. These men, in some of whom the miraculous operations of the Holy Spirit were singularly manifested, were not ch...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:18. For it repented the Lord because of their groanings.] “Because the Lord had compassion upon their sighing.” [_Keil_.] “ ‘The Lord was moved with compassion,’ or ‘was gri...
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...
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...
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