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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Judges 2

Judges 2:1

JUDGES CHAPTER 2 An angel reproveth Israel at Bochim; they bewail their sins, JUDGES 2:1. The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua; their frequent idolatry, JUDGES 2:6; for which they are often punished of God by the enemy; and being delivered by the judges grow worse, JUDGES 2:14; wherefor... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:3

I ALSO SAID with myself; I have now taken up this peremptory resolution. THORNS IN YOUR SIDES: SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 33:55"; SEE POOLE ON "JOSHUA 23:13".... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:4

Some of them from a true sense of their sins; but most of them from a just apprehension of their danger and approaching misery from the Canaanites growing power, and God's forsaking of them; as the following history makes most probable.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:5

For the expiation of their sins, by which they had provoked God to this resolution; and for the regaining of God's favour.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:6

WHEN JOSHUA HAD 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 in order to the discovery of the time, and cause, or occasion of the people's defection fro... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:11

IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; which notes the heinousness and the impudence of their sins above other people's sins; because God's presence was with them, and his eye upon them, in a peculiar manner, and he did narrowly observe all their actions, which also they were not ignorant of, and therefore were... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:13

i.e. The sun and the moon, whom many heathens worshipped, though under divers names; and so they ran into that error which God had so expressly warned them against, DEUTERONOMY 4:19.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:14

SOLD THEM, i.e. delivered them up, as the seller doth, his commodities unto the buyer. This the same phrase is used JUDGES 3:8, JUDGES 4:9, compared with JUDGES 2:14 PSALMS 44:12.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:15

WHITHERSOEVER THEY WENT OUT, i.e. whatsoever expedition or business they undertook; which is usually signified by _going out_ and _coming in_.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:16

THE LORD RAISED THEM UP, by inward inspiration and excitation of their minds and hearts, and by outward designation, testified by some heroical and extraordinary action. JUDGES; supreme magistrates, whose office it was, under God, and by his particular direction, to govern the commonwealth of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:18

IT REPENTED THE LORD, i.e. the Lord changed his course and dealings with them, as penitent men use to do; removed his judgments, and returned to them in mercy, GENESIS 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:19

THEY RETURNED to their former, and usual, and natural, though interrupted course. MORE THAN THEIR FATHERS, in Egypt or in the wilderness. FROM THEIR OWN DOINGS, i.e. from their evil practices, which he calls their _own_ partly because they were agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind ar... [ Continue Reading ]

Judges 2:22

THAT I MAY PROVE ISRAEL; either, first, 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 evil counsels and examples of their bad neighbours, whom I will leave among them for their trial and exercise. Or, secondly, T... [ Continue Reading ]

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