Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 2:22
May prove — 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 counsels and examples of their bad neighbours.
May prove — 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 counsels and examples of their bad neighbours.
Verse Judges 2:22. _THAT THROUGH THEM I MAY PROVE ISRAEL_] There appeared to be no other way to induce this people to acknowledge the true God, but by permitting them to fall into straits from which...
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:...
THEREIN.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), with some codices, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "in it": i.e. in Jehovah's way....
_prove Israel_ Judges 3:1; Judges 3:4, as He had _proved_them in the wilderness, Exodus 16:4 J, Exodus 15:25;...
These verses are clearly not the sequel of Judges 2:11; Judges 2:20 continues Judges 2:13 (see note); the opening words repeat Judges 2:14; the nations in...
_Ministry of the Judges Judges 2:16-23_ 16 Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges,...
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
PROVE] cp. Judges 3:1; Judges 3:2. Such an expression shows how easily a test may become a temptation....
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...
THAT THROUGH THEM I MAY PROVE ISRAEL. — Yet in this as in all God’s punishments there was an element of mercy mingled with the judgment, as we see from Exodus 23:29; Deuteronomy 7:22; and _infr_. Judg...
לְמַ֛עַן נַסֹּ֥ות בָּ֖ם אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הֲ ש
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...
INEFFECTUAL PENITENCE Judges 2:16 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 w...
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...
That through them I may (m) prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not. (m) So that both outward enemies and false prophets are b...
Or not. The secrets of hearts cannot be hidden from the omniscience of God. (Calmet) --- But he would have an experimental knowledge of the fidelity of his people, by leaving these nations in the mids...
All these verses fold up in their contents the two great leading points of the gospel doctrine, namely, human depravity, and divine benignity. In the forbearance of God, and the continued provocations...
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...
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...
THAT THROUGH THEM I MAY PROVE ISRAEL,.... Afflict them by them, and so prove or try them, their faith and patience, which are tried by afflictions; and such were the Canaanites to them, as afflictions...
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not. Ver. 22. _That through them I may prove Israel._] But whenas...
_That through them I may prove Israel_ 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 counsels and examples of the...
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...
that through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Cf Joshua 23:13. Thus the divine plan of a gradual extermination...
THE CORRUPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND ITS PUNISHMENT...
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...
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...
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...
Judges 2:22 test H5254 (H8763) Israel H3478 keep H8104 (H8802) ways H1870 LORD H3068 walk H3212 ...
“ 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 f...
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...
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...
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...
_The Lord raised up Judges._ THE JUDGES, THEIR CHOICE, FUNCTION, AND ADMINISTRATION I. These men, in some of whom the miraculous operations of the Holy Spirit were singularly manifested, were not cho...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:18. For it repented the Lord because of their groanings.] “Because the Lord had compassion upon their sighing.” [_Keil_.] “ ‘The Lord was moved with compassion,’ or ‘was grie...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 2:14, JUDGES 2:15 THE ANGER OF THE LORD, etc. These verses contain an awful view of the wrath of God excited by wilful sin, and are a practical illustration of...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:31; Deuteronomy 13:3; Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 8:2;...