Judges 2:10-11

10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.

11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

Judges 2:10-11 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 5:2; 1 Samuel 2:12; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Galatians 4:8
• 2. 1 Kings 15:26
• 3. Judges 3:12; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1; Judges 10:6
• 4. Judges 3:7; Judges 8:33; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 22:53; 2 Kings 10:18; 2 Kings 17:16