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Judges 2
23 verses with commentary
The Angel at Bokim
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 unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. angel: or, messenger
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<strong>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 unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.</strong><br><br>The appearance of "an angel of the LORD" (<em>mal'ak Yahweh</em>, מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה) marks a pivotal moment of divine confrontation. The definite article sug...
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(1) **An angel of the Lord.**—The words “*Maleak Jehovah*” are used of Haggai, in Haggai 1:13; of prophets in Isaiah 42:19; Malachi 3:6; of priests in Malachi 2:7. Hence from very ancient times these words have been interpreted as, “a messenger of the Lord” (as in the margin of our Bible). The Targum paraphrases it by “a prophet with a message from Jehovah.” R. Tanchum, from Judges 2:6, infers tha...
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Jos 19:10-16. Of Zebulun.
**10-14. the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun--**The boundaries of the possession assigned to them extended from the Lake of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee) on the east, to the Mediterranean on the west. Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10)--they afterwards did, according...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
The angel of the Lord rebukes the people.(1-5)
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.(6-23)
**Verses 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 done for Israel, and what he had promised. Th...
Read full commentary →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?
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<strong>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?</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's f...
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(2) **And ye shall make no league.**—This is the *condition *of the Covenant, quoted from Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 12:2-3. Comp. Exodus 23:31-33; Exodus 34:12-13.
**Why have ye done this?**—Comp. Genesis 3:13; Genesis 12:18.
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Jos 19:10-16. Of Zebulun.
**10-14. the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun--**The boundaries of the possession assigned to them extended from the Lake of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee) on the east, to the Mediterranean on the west. Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10)--they afterwards did, according...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
The angel of the Lord rebukes the people.(1-5)
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.(6-23)
**Verses 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 done for Israel, and what he had promised. Th...
Read full commentary →Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
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<strong>Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's fai...
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(3) **Wherefore I also said.**—Rather, *And now I have said.*
**I will not drive them out.**—The withdrawal of the conditional promises in Exodus 23:31.
**They shall be as thorns in your sides.**—The Hebrew is, “they shall be to you for *sides.” *The words “*as thorns*” are conjecturally supplied from Numbers 33:55. In Joshua 23:13 we have “*scourges *in your sides.” The LXX. render “for pressures...
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Jos 19:10-16. Of Zebulun.
**10-14. the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun--**The boundaries of the possession assigned to them extended from the Lake of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee) on the east, to the Mediterranean on the west. Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10)--they afterwards did, according...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
The angel of the Lord rebukes the people.(1-5)
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.(6-23)
**Verses 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 done for Israel, and what he had promised. Th...
Read full commentary →And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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<strong>And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithf...
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Jos 19:10-16. Of Zebulun.
**10-14. the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun--**The boundaries of the possession assigned to them extended from the Lake of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee) on the east, to the Mediterranean on the west. Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10)--they afterwards did, according...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
The angel of the Lord rebukes the people.(1-5)
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.(6-23)
**Verses 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 done for Israel, and what he had promised. Th...
Read full commentary →And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD. Bochim: that is, Weepers
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<strong>And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced here—sin, servitude,...
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(5) **Bochim.**—(Comp. Genesis 35:8; Genesis 1:11.) It was like “the Jews’ wailing-place” in modern Jerusalem.
**They sacrificed there unto the Lord.**—It is not *necessary *to infer from this that Bochim must have been near the sanctuary at Bethel, Shechem, or Shiloh. Not only did kings and prophets seem to be tacitly excepted from the general rule against offering sacrifice at any place except t...
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Chapter 2
Chapter Outline
The angel of the Lord rebukes the people.(1-5)
The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua.(6-23)
**Verses 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 done for Israel, and what he had promised. Th...
Read full commentary →Israel's Disobedience
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
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<strong>And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern ...
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(6) **When Joshua had let the people go.**—Rather, *And Joshua let the people go. *This passage strongly tends to support the view that the events of the previous chapter, and the message at Bochim, occurred before Joshua’s death. (Comp. Joshua 22:6; Joshua 24:28.)
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. outlived: Heb. prolonged days after Ioshua
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<strong>And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant ob...
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(7) **All the days of Joshua.**—Compare the whole passage (Judges 2:6-10) with Joshua 24:28-33, which is almost verbally identical with it. It is usually supposed that Joshua was about eighty at the time of the conquest of Canaan, because that was the age of his comrade Caleb (Joshua 14:7); if so, he had lived thirty years after the conquest. The gradual tendency to deteriorate after the removal o...
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Jos 19:17-23. Of Issachar.
**17-20. the fourth lot came out to Issachar--**Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
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<strong>And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced here—sin, serv...
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(8) **The servant of the Lord.**—Deuteronomy 34:5 (Moses); Psalms 18 (David); 2Timothy 2:24 (ministers in general), &c.
**An hundred and ten years old.**—The same age as Joseph (Genesis 1:26). Moses attained the age of 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7), Jacob, of 130 (Genesis 47:9), Isaac, of 180 (Genesis 35:28).
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Jos 19:17-23. Of Issachar.
**17-20. the fourth lot came out to Issachar--**Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
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<strong>And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyc...
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(9) **They buried him.**—This circumstance is usually added in the case of kings, heroes, &c. (Genesis 23:19; Jeremiah 22:18, &c.), and this care about burial seems to point to at least a dim hope of that immortality which had not as yet been fully “brought to light.”
**In the border of his inheritance.**—(See Joshua 19:49-50. It was in Mount Ephraim, and in a rugged and barren district—a circumst...
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Jos 19:17-23. Of Issachar.
**17-20. the fourth lot came out to Issachar--**Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
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<strong>And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covena...
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(10) **Gathered unto their fathers.**—See 2Kings 22:20, and for similar phrases, Genesis 15:15; 1Kings 1:21; Acts 13:36, &c. Another common phrase is. “gathered unto his people” (Genesis 15:8, &c.); and “sleep with fathers” (Deuteronomy 31:16), &c.
**Which knew not the Lord.**—“They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord” (Jeremiah 9:3; comp. Titus 1:16).
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Jos 19:17-23. Of Issachar.
**17-20. the fourth lot came out to Issachar--**Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
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<strong>And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced here—sin, servitude, suppli...
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(11) **Did evil in the sight of the Lord.**—Rather, “*the *evil.” Used especially of apostasy (see Judges 3:7-12; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1; Judges 10:6; Judges 13:1). They fell into the very idolatry against which they had been emphatically warned (Deuteronomy 4:19).
**Baalim.**—Rather, “*the *Baalim.” Baal means “lord,” or “possessor,” and in its idolatrous sense was applied especially to the sun, ...
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**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's ...
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(12) **Forsook the Lord God of their fathers.**—(Deuteronomy 31:16-17.) It seems, however, that the sin of the Israelites was a breach rather of the *second *than of the *first *commandment. It was not so much a worshipping of other gods as a worshipping of Jehovah under false symbols adopted from the surrounding nations by a spurious syncretism. Similarly, the calf-worship of the northern tribes ...
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**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
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<strong>And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced here—sin, servitude, supplication, salvation, sile...
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(13) **Baal and Ashtaroth.**—Literally, “the Baals and the Ashtareths.”
**Ashtaroth.**—The plural of the feminine word Ash-tareth, or Astarte, “the goddess of the Sidonians” (1Kings 11:5), the Phœnician Venus—identified sometimes with the moon (*e.g., *in the name Ashtaroth Karnaim, “the city of the two-horned moon,” the name of Og’s capital, Deuteronomy 1:4), and sometimes with the planet Venus (...
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**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the L...
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(14) **The anger of the Lord was hot.**—(Psalm 78:59.) The language of the sad summary which follows should be compared with that of very similar passages which we find in various parts of the Bible (Psalm 106:34-45; Deuteronomy 32; 2 Kings 17; 2Kings 24:2-4; 2Chronicles 36:11-21; Jeremiah 11:2-10).
**He sold them.**—We find the same expression in Judges 3:8; Judges 4:2; Judges 10:7; Deuteronomy 3...
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligation...
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(15) **The hand of the Lord was against them.**—Contrast this with Joshua 1:9.
**As the Lord had said.**—Leviticus 26:17-36; Deuteronomy 28:25, &c.
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. delivered: Heb. saved
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<strong>Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced her...
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(16) **Nevertheless.**—Rather, *And.*
**The Lord raised up judges.**—Acts 13:20; 1Samuel 12:10-11. This is the key-note to the book. (See Judges 3:10; Judges 4:4; Judges 10:2; Judges 12:7, &c.; 15:20.) The word for *Judges *is *Shophetim. *The ordinary verb “to judge,” in Hebrew, is not *Shaphât, *but *dayyân. *Evidently their deliverers (comp. Deuteronomy 17:8-9; Psalm 2:10; Amos 2:3) are of high...
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel o...
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(17) **Went a whoring.**—Idolatry throughout the Bible is regarded as a spiritual adultery. (Exodus 34:15; Isaiah 54:5; Jeremiah 3:8; Ezekiel 23:37; Hosea 2:7; 2Corinthians 11:2, &c.)
**The way which their fathers walked in.**—As described in Judges 2:7.
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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.
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<strong>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.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. ...
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(18) **It repented the Lord**—*i.e., *Jehovah was grieved. (Comp. Jonah 3:10, “God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them; and He did it not”—Genesis 6:6; Exodus 32:14; 1Samuel 15:35; Amos 7:3; Joel 2:13, &c.) The simple anthropomorphism of early ages never hesitates to describe the ways and thoughts of Jehovah by the analogy of human lives; nor is it easy to see how the sacre...
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →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, nor from their stubborn way. corrupted: or, were corrupt ceased: Heb. let nothing fall of their
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<strong>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, nor from their stubborn way.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel ...
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(19) **They ceased not from their own doings.**—Literally, as in the margin, “they let nothing fall of their deeds.”
**Stubborn.**—They are called “stiff-necked” in Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 10:16; Acts 7:51. The prophets and sacred writers are always careful to impress upon the Jews that they are chosen by God’s free grace to work out His purpose, and that their selection for this service was in n...
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
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<strong>And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of ...
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(20) **This people.**—Comp. Isaiah 6:9-10, “Go, and tell this people”; Judges 8:12.
**Hath transgressed my covenant.**—The same expression is used in Joshua 23:16.
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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<strong>I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pattern introduced her...
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Jos 19:24-31. Of Asher.
**24-31. the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--**The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
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<strong>That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The ...
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(22) **That through them I may prove Israel.**—Yet in this as in all God’s punishments there was an element of mercy mingled with the judgment, as we see from Exodus 23:29-30; Deuteronomy 7:22; and *infr*. Judges 3:1-2. If in one point of view the non-extermination of Canaan at first led the Israelites into temptation and brought down retributive punishments upon them, yet out of these evils God r...
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Jos 19:32-39. Of Naphtali.
**32-39. the sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali--**Although the cities mentioned have not been discovered, it is evident, from Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh, that is, on the northwest of Lake Merom (Jud 4:11), that the boundary described (Jos 19:34) ran from the southwest towards the northeast, up to the sources of the Jordan.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
Read full commentary →Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. left: or, suffered
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<strong>Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.</strong><br><br>This verse occurs in the crucial second chapter establishing the covenant lawsuit and cyclical pattern of apostasy. The Angel of the LORD's covenant lawsuit exposes Israel's violation of covenant obligations despite God's faithfulness. The cyclical pat...
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Jos 19:32-39. Of Naphtali.
**32-39. the sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali--**Although the cities mentioned have not been discovered, it is evident, from Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh, that is, on the northwest of Lake Merom (Jud 4:11), that the boundary described (Jos 19:34) ran from the southwest towards the northeast, up to the sources of the Jordan.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 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 se...
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