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Verse Judges 2:13. _SERVED BAAL AND ASHTAROTH._] In a general way,
probably, _Baal_ and _Ashtaroth_ mean the _sun_ and _moon_; but in
many cases _Ashtaroth_ seems to have been the same among the
Canaa...
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2. THE ANGEL AT BOCHIM AND THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE BOOK
Chapter S 2:1-3:4
_ 1. The angel at Bochim (Judges 2:1)_
2. Israel's obedience remembered (Judges 2:6)
3. Israel's strange gods (Judges 2:...
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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,
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ASHTAROTH. The special evil of Canaanite nations. Name derived from
the _Asherah_ (see App-42). The _Asherah_ was idolatry of the most
revolting form of immorality under the guise of religion. All vir...
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This verse repeats the substance of Judges 2:12; it continues Judges
2:10 and leads on to Judges 2:20. The repetition is explained if the
verse belongs to E; for the expression _forsook the Lord_in E...
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_Israel's Apostasy Judges 2:11-15_
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them
out of the...
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_AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD, AND SERVED BAAL AND ASHTAROTH._
Ashtaroth - also a plural word, denoting all the female divinities,
especially Astarte, the Syrian Venus, whose rites were celebrated by
th...
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INTRODUCTORY (JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 3:4)
Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5.
This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early
conquest of Pa
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ASHTAROTH] RV 'the Ashtaroth,' properly the feminine counterpart of
'the Baalim.' In Babylon, the goddess Ashtoreth appears as Ishtar
(with attributes corresponding in part to Aphrodite or Venus). How...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 2
V1 The *angel of the *Lord came from Gilgal to Bokim. He said ‘I
brought you out of Egypt. And then I brought you into the country that
I promised...
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BAAL AND ASHTAROTH. — Literally, “the Baals and the Ashtareths.”
ASHTAROTH. — The plural of the feminine word Ash-tareth, or Astarte,
“the goddess of the Sidonians” (1 Kings 11:5), the Phœnician
Venus...
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וַ יַּעַזְב֖וּ אֶת ־יְהוָ֑ה וַ
יַּעַבְד֥וּ לַ
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AMONG THE ROCKS OF PAGANISM
Judges 2:7
"AND Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a
hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnath-he...
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A GENERATION THAT KNEW NOT JEHOVAH
Judges 2:6
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 th...
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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...
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And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and (f) Ashtaroth.
(f) These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the
Sidonians....
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_Baal, "Lord," a title given to many of the idols, (Haydock) both male
and female. (Menochius) --- They are often distinguished by some
additional name, as Beelzebub, "fly," and berith, "covenant," go...
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Here begins the sad account which the Holy Ghost hath caused to be
recorded, of Israel's whoredom and idolatry, and which runs through
all the future periods of their history, until they were unchurch...
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The book of Joshua has shown the power of Jehovah in the conquests of
His people, and this too distinguished from the measure of their
practical taking possession of what was conquered. For as these a...
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Alas! if such was the condition of the people, and they were satisfied
with it, chastening, as at Ai, was no longer in question. But the
angel of Jehovah (the operative power of God in the midst of th...
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AND THEY FORSOOK THE LORD,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum;
this is repeated to observe the heinous sin they were guilty of, and
how displeasing it was to God:
AND SERVED BAAL AND ASHTAROT...
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And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Ver. 13. _And served Baal and Ashtaroth,_] _i.e., _ He-gods and
she-gods of all sorts, closing up their orisons with, _Diique, deaque,
omnes,...
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_They served Baal and Ashtaroth_ By _Baal_ or _lord_ here, it is
probable, we are to understand the sun, and by _Ashtaroth_, the same,
it seems, with _Astarte_, the moon, worshipped in different count...
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1 An Angel rebuketh the people at Bochim.
6 The wickednesse of the new generation after Ioshua.
14 Gods anger and pitie towards them.
20 The Canaanites are left to prooue Israel.
1 AND an [NOTE: O...
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And they forsook the Lord, the repetition of this statement serving to
emphasize the heinousness of the transgression, AND SERVED BAAL AND
ASHTAROTH. There was no outright rejection of Jehovah, but a...
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THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND ITS PUNISHMENT...
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THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
(vv. 1-6)
Israel's failure called for strong reproof. THE angel of the Lord, who
is the Lord Himself, not A messenger from God, but THE messenger, came
from Gilg...
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6-23 We have a general idea of the course of things in Israel, during
the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as mean and
miserable by forsaking God, as they would have been great and happ...
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Judges 2:13 forsook H5800 (H8799) LORD H3068 served H5647 (H8799) Baal
H1168 Ashtoreths H6252
served -...
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‘ 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...
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ASHTAROTH
Ashtaroth, plural of Ashtoreth (1 Kings 11:5) were figures of
Ashtoreth the Phoenician goddess (the Astarte of the Greeks), which
were worshipped as idols during times of spiritual declensi...
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Judges 1 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; f...
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CONTENTS: Review of Israelitish invasion of Canaan up to Joshua's
death. Results of incomplete obedience. Judges instituted.
CHARACTERS: God, angel of Jehovah (Jesus) Joshua.
CONCLUSION: God never d...
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Judges 2:1. _An Angel of the Lord._ Jewish writers in succession speak
of this as a created angel: but no mere angel would dare to speak as
Jehovah. It was therefore the Angel of the covenant, the sam...
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_They forsook the Lord God of their fathers._
ISRAEL’S OBSTINACY AND GOD’S PATIENCE
This passage sums up the Book of Judges, and also the history of
Israel for over four hundred years. Like the overt...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 2:13 ASHTAROTH is the plural of Ashtoreth, a
goddess of fertility, love, and war closely associated with Baal
(Judges 10:6;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Judges 2:11. And served Baalim.] The _pl_. form indicates the
different Baalim, or the different characters and modifications under
which Baal, the sun-god, was worshipped, rather tha...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 2:7
AND THE PEOPLE SERVED, etc. This verse is the epitome of the religious
history of Israel from the time of the expostulation of the angel till
the dying off of all those who had...
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So 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...
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1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 8:5; 1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:5;...
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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, Deuteronomy 4:19...