Judges 2:6-23,Joshua 24:1-28

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Judges 2:11-23

Judges ISRAEL’S OBSTINACY AND GOD’S PATIENCE Jdg_2:11 - Jdg_2:23 . This passage sums up the Book of Judges, and also the history of Israel for over four hundred years. Like the overture of an oratorio, it sounds the main themes of the story which follows. That story has four chapters, repeated with dreary monotony over and over again. They are: Relapse into idolatry, retribution, respite and deliverance, and brief return to God. The last of these phases soon passes into fresh relapse, and... 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

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 2:16-23

Ineffectual Penitence Judges 2:16-23 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 which has not become united under the reign of Jesus. See Judges 17:6 ; Judges 18:1 . Such rites as were associated with Baal and Ashtaroth were both cruel and demoralizing; a distressing picture is given in Psalms 106:34 , etc. , of the condition of Israel at this period. What wonder that... 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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Judges 2:16

THE STORY OF THE JUDGES‘The Lord raised up judges.’ Judges 2:16 The Book of Judges may have struck you as a strange sequel to the triumphant entry into the Promised Land, and even more to the promises themselves, which had spoken not only of conquest but of rest. The book covers a space apparently of at least three hundred years; and it is a record of ever-renewed conflict, danger, hardly-won deliverance.The history of Israel, as it is written in the Bible, is in this respect, as in so many... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:6-9

A Flashback To The Days of Joshua And the Days of Faithfulness (Judges 2:6-9 ). Judges 2:6 ‘ Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.’ What a time of triumph and hope that had been. Joshua had sent them to their inheritances strong in faith. They had been confident that this was their inheritance from God through the covenant, and that nothing could finally stand against them. They must empty it of Canaanites and... 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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:11

‘ And the children of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baalim.’ It was the ‘natural’ thing to do. The Baalim were the main god of the land represented in the form of statuettes of bulls, so easily satisfied and demanding nothing in return. They were like good luck charms to many Israelites, but they took them away from faithfulness to the covenant. They took their eyes off God. Others entered more boldly into Baalism, enjoying ‘worship’ with the sacred... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:12

‘ And they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them. And they provoked Yahweh to anger.’ They ignored two things, God’s covenant with Abraham which alone gave them the right to inherit the land, and His great deliverance whereby He delivered them from Egypt by His mighty power. Firstly they were ignoring the covenant, and the fact that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:13

‘ And they forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.’ The repetitiveness is deliberate so that the words will be burned into the hearer’s hearts. We must not understand by ‘forsook’ that they ceased to look to Yahweh in some way as their God. They still accepted their part in the tribal covenant, at some times more firmly than others. They still recognised Him in feasts and sacrifices. But He had become One among others. To be called on but not to be followed fully. And their part in... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Judges 2:11-23

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

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 2:16-23

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

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Judges 2:16

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:6-9

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:12

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:13

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