Judges 2:7-17

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 ¹his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

10 All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who ²did not know the LORD, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel Serves Baals

11 Then the sons of Israel did ³evil in the sight of the LORD and served the ⁴Baals,

12 and ⁵they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed * other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger.

13 So they forsook the LORD and ⁶served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

14 ⁷The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and ⁸He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

15 Wherever * they went, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken and ⁹as the LORD had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

16 ¹⁰Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.

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 ¹¹in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.

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Judges 2:7-17 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 11

1. Joshua 19:49
2. Exodus 5:2; 1 Samuel 2:12
3. Judges 3:7, 12; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1
4. Judges 6:25; Judges 8:33; Judges 10:6
5. Deuteronomy 31:16
6. Judges 10:6
7. Deuteronomy 31:17; Psalms 106:40-42
8. Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 32:30
9. Leviticus 26:14-39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68
10. Psalms 106:43-45
11. Judges 2:7

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "prolonged days after"
[b]. Or "worshiped"
[c]. Lit "and they"