Judges 2:10-14

10 All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who ¹did not know the LORD, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel Serves Baals

11 Then the sons of Israel did ²evil in the sight of the LORD and served the ³Baals,

12 and ⁴they 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 ⁵served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

14 ⁶The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and ⁷He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

Judges 2:10-14 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. Exodus 5:2; 1 Samuel 2:12
• 2. Judges 3:7, 12; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1
• 3. Judges 6:25; Judges 8:33; Judges 10:6
• 4. Deuteronomy 31:16
• 5. Judges 10:6
• 6. Deuteronomy 31:17; Psalms 106:40-42
• 7. Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 32:30

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "worshiped"