Giudici 2:17

17 Ma neppure ai loro giudici davano ascolto, poiché si prostituivano ad altri dèi, e si prostravan dinanzi a loro. E abbandonarono ben presto la via battuta dai loro padri, i quali aveano ubbidito ai comandamenti dell’Eterno; ma essi non fecero così.

Giudici 2:17 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 2:17

And yet they would not hearken unto their judges
Afterwards, or not always; but when they admonished them of their sins, and advised them to walk in the good ways of God, and serve him only; they turned a deaf ear to them, and went on in their own ways, which is a sad aggravation of their iniquities:

but they went a whoring after their gods, and bowed themselves unto
them;
committing spiritual adultery, for such idolatry is, and is often so represented in Scripture; for by it they broke the covenant God made with them, which had the nature of a matrimonial contract, and in which God was an husband to them; and therefore serving other gods was rejecting him as such, and committing whoredom with others; than which nothing was more provoking to God, jealous of his honour and glory:

they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in;
as soon as ever Joshua and the elders were dead, they departed from the God of their fathers, and the way in which they worshipped him; and so likewise quickly after they had been delivered by the judges, or however as soon as they were dead:

obeying the commandments of the Lord;
serving him at his tabernacle, according to the laws, commands, and ordinances he gave to Moses, which is to be understood of their fathers:

[but] they did not so;
did not walk in the same way, nor serve the Lord, and obey his commands, as their fathers did; but all the reverse.

Giudici 2:17 In-Context

15 Dovunque andavano, la mano dell’Eterno era contro di loro a loro danno, come l’Eterno avea detto, come l’Eterno avea loro giurato: e furono oltremodo angustiati.

16 E l’Eterno suscitava dei giudici, che li liberavano dalle mani di quelli che li spogliavano.

17 Ma neppure ai loro giudici davano ascolto, poiché si prostituivano ad altri dèi, e si prostravan dinanzi a loro. E abbandonarono ben presto la via battuta dai loro padri, i quali aveano ubbidito ai comandamenti dell’Eterno; ma essi non fecero così.

18 E quando l’Eterno suscitava loro de’ giudici, l’Eterno era col giudice, e li liberava dalla mano de’ loro nemici durante tutta la vita del giudice; poiché l’Eterno si pentiva a sentire i gemiti che mandavano a motivo di quelli che li opprimevano e li angariavano.

19 Ma, quando il giudice moriva, tornavano a corrompersi più dei loro padri, andando dietro ad altri dèi per servirli e prostrarsi dinanzi a loro; non rinunziavano menomamente alle loro pratiche e alla loro caparbia condotta.