Judges 2:1-9

Israel Rebuked

1 Now ¹the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to ²Bochim. And he said, "³I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, '⁴I will never * break My covenant with you,

2 and as for you, ⁵you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ⁶you shall tear down their altars.' But you have not obeyed * Me; what is this you have done?

3 "Therefore I also said, '⁷I will not drive them out before * you; but they will become ⁸as thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.' "

4 When the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

5 So they named * that place Bochim; and there they sacrificed to the LORD.

Joshua Dies

6 ⁹When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.

7 The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived * * Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD which He had done for Israel.

8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

9 And they buried him in the territory of ¹⁰his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Judges 2:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 2

This chapter gives an account of an angel of the Lord appearing and rebuking the children of Israel for their present misconduct, Jud 2:1-5; of their good behaviour under Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, Jud 2:6-10; and of their idolatries they fell into afterwards, which greatly provoked the Lord to anger, Jud 2:11-15; and of the goodness of God to them nevertheless, in raising up judges to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, of which there are many instances in the following chapter, Jud 2:16-18; and yet that how, upon the demise of such persons, they relapsed into idolatry which caused the anger of God to be hot against them, and to determine not to drive out the Canaanites utterly from them, but to leave them among them to try them, Jud 2:19-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Judges 6:11; Judges 13:2-21
2. Judges 2:5
3. Exodus 20:2
4. Genesis 17:7, 8; Leviticus 26:42, 44; Deuteronomy 7:9
5. Exodus 23:32; Deuteronomy 7:2-5
6. Exodus 34:12, 13
7. Joshua 23:13
8. Numbers 33:55
9. Joshua 24:28-31
10. Joshua 19:49

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "listened to My voice"
[b]. Some ancient mss read "be adversaries, and"
[c]. I.e. weepers
[d]. Lit "prolonged days after"