Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 2:4
Wept — Some of them from a true sense of their sins; others from a just apprehension of their approaching misery.
Wept — Some of them from a true sense of their sins; others from a just apprehension of their approaching misery.
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:...
JUDGES 1:1 TO JUDGES 2:5. THE CONQUESTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE ISRAELITES IN WESTERN PALESTINE. From this introduction, which is one of the most valuable parts of early Hebrew history, we learn that t...
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_unto all the children of Israel_ although, as ch. 1 has told, the tribes were dispersed in their various settlements. The expression, as indeed the whole situation presupposed in Judges 2:1; Judges 2...
Judges 2:1-5. _The angel of Jehovah moves from Gilgal; he rebukes Israel's unfaithfulness. Origin of Bochim_ This section connects with ch. 1. The going up of the Angel of Jehovah from Gilgal to Beth...
DISCOURSE: 262 THE DANGER OF INDECISION Judges 2:1. And an Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land winch I sware...
_Angel of the Lord Rebukes Israel Judges 2:1-5_ And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unt...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPAKE THESE WORDS UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THE PEOPLE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT._ The people lifted up their voice, and wept. The a...
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
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...
וַ יְהִ֗י כְּ דַבֵּ֞ר מַלְאַ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ אֶת
AT BOCHIM: THE FIRST PROPHET VOICE Judges 2:1 FROM the time of Abraham on to the settlement in Canaan the Israelites had kept the faith of the one God. They had their origin as a people in a decisive...
FLAGGING IN THEIR GREAT TASK Judges 1:16; Judges 2:1 The conquest of Canaan was very partial. Israel dwelled among the ancient inhabitants of the land, much as the Normans did among the Anglo-Saxons,...
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...
The angel of the Lord came to the people and told them he would no longer fight for them because they had failed to follow his directions. They had made covenants with the people in direct violation o...
The effect of the Sermon of the angel was as might be supposed. They were stung to the heart in the recollection of God's mercy, and their unworthiness; and they wept. Bochim means weepers. Was not th...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPAKE THESE WORDS UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... This being either one of the three solemn feasts, when all the males appeared at the tabernacle o...
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. Ver. 4. _The people lifted up their voice, and wept...
_Ye shall make no league_, &c. These express and frequently-repeated commands of God they had disobeyed. _Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out_, &c. That is, I have now taken up this perem...
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...
And it came to pass, when the Angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept, in deep alarm over their sin, with the bitter weeping...
THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...
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...
1-5 It was the great Angel of the covenant, the Word, the Son of God, who spake with Divine authority as Jehovah, and now called them to account for their disobedience. God sets forth what he had don...
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 fo...
Judges 2:4 Angel H4397 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8763) words H1697 children H1121 Israel H3478 people H5971 up...
THE ANGEL OF YAHWEH QUESTIONS WHY THEY HAVE BEEN DISOBEDIENT AND THE PEOPLE MAKE A SHOW OF REPENTANCE (JUDGES 2:1). Judges 2:1 a ‘ And the Angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said,...
Judges 2:1 This is clearly an incident to arrest our attention and to arouse our curiosity. Let us inquire: (1) Who this angel was? (2) What the meaning of "Gilgal" and "Bochim" is; and (3) What sign...
Judges 2:4 I. Observe, first, that the reprover of the people is termed "an angel." "An angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal." But the first utterance carries us to the thought of One higher than ang...
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...
_An angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim._ THE ISRAELITES AT BOCHIM I. The Assembly convened: “All the children of Israel.” II. The messenger employed. This “angel of the Lord “ is said t...
_THE BEGINNING OF THE LORD’S REBUKE_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 2:1. An angel of the Lord.] Not merely “_a messenger_,” but the “_angel of Jehovah_.” “The phrase is used nearly sixty times to designate...
EXPOSITION It is often extremely difficult to make out the _sequence_ of a Hebrew narrative, the narrator going back and travelling over the same ground in respect _of time _which he had already trave...
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...
1 Samuel 7:6; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Ezra 10:1; James 4:9; Jeremiah 31:9;...