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Judges 2:17-23

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17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way 1in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.
18 When the LORD raised up judges for them, 2the LORD was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was 3moved to pity by their groaning because * of those who oppressed and afflicted them.
19 But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following * other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
20 4So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, "Because * this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,
21 5I also will no longer drive out before * them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
22 in order to 6test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it as their fathers did, or not."
23 So the LORD allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
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Judges 2:17-23 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 6

  • 1. Judges 2:7
  • 2. Joshua 1:5
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalms 106:44
  • 4. Judges 2:14
  • 5. Josh 23:4, 5, 13
  • 6. Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 13:3

Footnotes 1

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