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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:14

‘ And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who 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.’ So Yahweh’s anger was kindled against them, and what follows in Judges 2:14 to Judges 3:6 is a summary of what will follow in detail in the remainder of the book. First the summary and then the detail revealing how the summary was worked out. The first... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:15

‘ Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had said, and as Yahweh had sworn to them.’ Because they had failed to drive out the Canaanites God would give them no more victories. When they now sought to expand they would face defeat after defeat, just as Yahweh had said (Judges 2:3). Indeed as He had sworn to them. The situation was similar to that when they had failed to listen to God’s warning previously, after they had previously failed to obey God.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:17

‘ And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they went a whoring after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They did not do so.’ From now on there was an up-down situation. Having been delivered from their enemies and having begun again to walk in the commandments of Yahweh, they repaired the breaches in the covenant, and began to obey God. But ‘they did not listen to their... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:18

‘ And when Yahweh raised up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Yahweh relented because of their groaning as a result of those who oppressed them and vexed them.’ The repetition compared with Judges 2:16 is deliberate. The process was repeated over and over and over again. Yahweh would continually raise up judges over the different tribes. He would be with the judges and save the tribes out of the hands of their... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:19

‘ And it happened that, when the judge was dead, they turned back and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn ways.’ The only result of God’s goodness and mercy was that they became worse. The more He helped them the worse they became. For a time they treated the covenant and the tribal confederacy seriously, until the delivering judge was dead, and then they turned... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:20

‘ And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice”.’ Again we read of God’s anger kindled against them, compare verse 14. Everything is repeated to bring out either its heinousness or its severity. God had delivered their fathers and had made a covenant with them at Sinai. And they had renewed that covenant with Him time and time again, especially at the times... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:21

“ I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died.” His patience was now finished. He would deliver them from outside nations, but the nations in the land were now to be their snares, and traps, and thorns and headaches. He would no longer help them to drive them out. Rather He would leave them there to test them out. There had been a limit to what Joshua could do, an understandable limit of time and manpower. But by now the work should... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:22

“ That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.” These nations would act as a continual proving ground, testing how faithful to the covenant Israel would be. Testing whether, like their fathers, they would be willing to walk in His ways. Or whether they would not. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 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 people would be unfaithful, for even in the days of Joshua when the people were relatively faithful to Him, He had not acted fully to drive out the nations with all speed. This was so that they would be a test to His people of their faithfulness, a test that they had miserably failed. He had been... 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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:22

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 2:23

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

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