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Judges 2
An angel reproves Israel, who bewail their sins, ver. 1-5. They
served God during the life of Joshua and his contemporaries, ver.
4-9. Their frequent revolts to idolatry, ver. 10-19. God stops their
success, ver. 20-23.
Verse 1. The angel - Christ the angel of the covenant, often called the
angel of the Lord, to whom the conduct of Israel out of Egypt into
Canaan, is frequently ascribed. He alone could speak the
following words in his own name and person; whereas created
angels and prophets universally usher in their message with, Thus
saith the Lord, or some equivalent expression. And this angel
having assumed the shape of a man, it is not strange that he
imitates the motion of a man, and comes as it were from Gilgal to
the place where now they were: by which motion he signified,
that he was the person that brought them to Gilgal, the first place
where they rested in Canaan, and there protected them so long,
and from thence went with them to battle, and gave them success.
Bochim - A place so called by anticipation; it seems to be no other
than Shiloh, where it is probable, the people were met together
upon some solemn festival. I said - That is, I promised upon
condition of your keeping covenant with me.
Verse 2. Done this - That is, disobeyed these express commands.
Verse 3. I said - With myself, I have now taken up this peremptory
resolution.
Verse 4. Wept - Some of them from a true sense of their sins; others
from a just apprehension of their approaching misery.
Verse 5. Bochim - That is, Weepers. They sacrificed - For the expiation
of their sins, by which they had provoked God to this resolution.
Verse 6. Let the people go - When he had distributed their inheritances,
and dismissed them severally to take possession of them. This was
done before this time, whilst Joshua lived; but is now repeated to
discover the time, and occasion of the peoples defection from
God, and of God's desertion of them.
Verse 10. Knew not - Which had no experimental, nor serious and
affectionate knowledge of God, or of his works.
Verse 11. 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 ignorant of, and therefore were guilty of more
contempt of God than other people. Baalim - False gods. He useth
the plural number, because the gods of the Canaanites, and
adjoining nations, which Israel worshipped, were most of them
called by the name of Baal.
Verse 13. Baal and Ashtaroth - That is, the sun and moon, whom many
Heathens worshipped, tho' under divers names; and so they ran
into that error which God had so expressly warned them against,
Deut. iv, 19. Baalim signifies lords, and Ashtaroth, blessed ones,
he-gods and she-gods. When they forsook Jehovah, they had gods
many and lords many, as a luxuriant fancy pleased to multiply
them.
Verse 14. Sold them - That is, delivered them up, as the seller doth his
commodities unto the buyer.
Verse 15. Whithersoever they went - That is, Whatsoever expedition or
business they undertook; which is usually signified by going out,
and coming in.
Verse 16. Raised up - By inward inspiration and excitation of their
hearts, and by outward designation testified by some extra-
ordinary action. Judges - Supreme magistrates, whose office it
was, under God, and by his particular direction, to govern the
commonwealth of Israel by God's laws, and to protect and save
them from their enemies, to preserve and purge religion, and to
maintain the liberties of the people against all oppressors.
Verse 17. Their Judges - Who admonished them of their sin and folly,
and of the danger and misery which would certainly befall them.
Verse 18. It repented the Lord - That is, the Lord changed his course and
dealings with them, as penitent men use to do; removed his
judgments, and returned to them in mercy.
Verse 19. Returned - To their former, and usual course. Their fathers - In
Egypt, or in the wilderness. Their own doings - That is, from their
evil practices, which he calls their own, because they were
agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind are deeply
and universally corrupted, and because they were familiar and
customary to them.
Verse 22. May prove - That I may try and see whether Israel will be true
and faithful to me, or whether they will suffer themselves to be
corrupted by the counsels and examples of their bad neighbours.
Chapter 2:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Joshua Ruth
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