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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 2:6-10

An extract from the Book of Joshua showing when and through what occasion the religious apostasy of Israel beganJudges 2:6-106And when [omit: when] Joshua had [omit: had] let the people go, [and] the children [sons] of Israel went every man unto his inheritance, to possess [to take possession of] the land. 7And the people served the Lord [Jehovah] all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived9 Joshua, who had seen all 8the great works of the Lord [Jehovah], that he did... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Judges 2:1-10

Judges A SUMMARY OF ISRAEL’S FAITHLESSNESS AND GOD’S PATIENCE Jdg_2:1 - Jdg_2:10 . The Book of Judges begins a new era, the development of the nation in its land. Jdg_1:1 contain two summaries: first, of the progress of the conquest; and second, of the history about to be unfolded in the book. The first part of this passage Jdg_2:1 - Jdg_2:5 belongs to the former, and closes it; the second Jdg_2:6 - Jdg_2:10 introduces the latter, and contrasts it with the state of things prevailing as long... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 2:6-15

a Generation that Knew not Jehovah Judges 2:6-15 What a thrilling experience it must have been to hear Joshua and Caleb talk of Egypt, the Red Sea, and Sinai! The younger men would stand awestruck as the veterans narrated their experiences of God. Open your diaries of the past, ye older saints, and tell what the Lord hath done for you. It will hearten us for the fight, Malachi 3:16 . Joshua was carried to his last resting-place in his inheritance-“the portion of the sun”-amid the respect and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 2:1-23

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 of the Lord," may have been a prophet, for the word rendered "angel" may with equal accuracy be rendered messenger. On the other hand it may have been a special divine and angelic personality. There was an assembly of the people at Bochim. For what purpose we are not told, but the message... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:10

The Continued Failure of The People Summarised With respect to the Days That Were Coming - His Attempts To Woo Them By Deliverance - And Their Continual Backsliding (Judges 2:10-23 ). Judges 2:10 ‘ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them, who did not know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.’ Thus ‘the elders that outlived Joshua’ were the elders of his generation. There were not two faithful generations.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:6-13

Judges 2:6 to Judges 3:6 . The Deuteronomist’ s Introduction to the Book of Judges proper ( Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31).— In the view of this interpreter of sacred history, the whole era of the Judges falls into longer or shorter times of national prosperity, in which Yahweh protects and blesses His faithful people, alternating with times of national calamity, in which He withdraws His favour and blessing from apostates. On the beneficent strength of the Judge the pillars of state rest... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 2:10

Which knew not the Lord; which had no experimental nor serious and affectionate knowledge of God, nor of his works. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 2:6-10

CRITICAL NOTES.—Judges 2:6. And when Joshua had let the people go.] The visit and solemn message of the angel had led to tears. The temporary repentance was so general that the place of the visit was named after the weeping which it had produced. But tears for sin are of small use so long as the sin itself is not put away. Israel remained in league with the tributary Canaanites in spite of the tears. That being so, the sin went on to work out its inevitable calamities and to bring tears which... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Judges 2:1-23

Judges 1:0 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; full of resources, and able to keep up the heart of a whole people by his hopeful bearing. It was one of the most difficult of tasks which was entrusted to Joshua. He was to lead the people through a series of the most brilliant and exciting military successes, and then to turn them to the most... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 2:1-23

Chapter 2So 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 will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of the land; ye shall throw down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in... read more

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