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Judges 2:2,3

JUDGES—NOTE ON Judges 2:2 Israel had disobeyed God’s commands. See Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:12; Deuteronomy 12:3. So these nations would be a snare to them (e.g., by pagan rituals; Judges 8:27), just as God had warned (Exodus 23:33; Numbers 33:55; Joshua 23:13).

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See also Judges 2:2,3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The two articles of the covenant here specified (compare margin references) are those which the Israelites had at this time broken. The other important prohibition Deuteronomy 7:3 is not specified by...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE. Compare Exodus 23:32.Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:5, &c. YE SHALL THROW DOWN. Compare Exodus 34:12

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _this land_ After -this land" the LXX inserts -nor shall ye worship their gods, but their graven images ye shall break to pieces," an addition of no critical value. _break down their altars_ Exodus 34...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND; YE SHALL THROW DOWN THEIR ALTARS: BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE: WHY HAVE YE DONE THIS?_ But ye have not obeyed my voice. The burden...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE. — This is the _condition_ of the Covenant, quoted from Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 12:2. Comp. Exodus 23:31;...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַתֶּ֗ם לֹֽא ־תִכְרְת֤וּ בְרִית֙ לְ יֹֽושׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    League. None of a public nature had been perhaps made by the whole nation, to sanction the idolatry of the Chanaanites. But so many individuals had entered into marriages with them and imitated their...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to remark with me the leading feature in the character of this angel, and then let him determine for himself whether it was not the Angel of the Covenant, even the Lord Jesus Christ....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND,.... This the Lord charged them not to do, when he covenanted with them, and assured them of bringing them into the land; and yet they had...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Ver. 2. _Why have ye done this?_] Can you give...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, never enter into entangling alliances with them; YE SHALL THROW DOWN THEIR ALTARS, utterly destroy all evidences of idolatry. BUT YE HAVE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE REPROOF OF THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Disobeyed these express commands of mine?...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 2:2 make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) land H776 down H5422 (H8799) altars...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 4:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Deuteronomy 12:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Done this — That is, disobeyed these express commands....

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