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 traversed, in order to
introduce some circumstances which had been omitted (see Judges 7:25,
note, and Ju... [ Continue Reading ]
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 been elders in the time of Joshua.
It probably includes some forty or fifty years from the entrance... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Exodus 20:5 : "_I am a jealous God_." Compare Psalms 79:5, which
shows how closely allied the notions of _anger_ and _jea... [ Continue Reading ]