Richtere 2:11

11 Toen deden de kinderen Israels, dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, en zij dienden de Baals.

Richtere 2:11 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 2:11

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord,
&c.] Openly and publicly, boldly and impudently, in the very face of God, and amidst all the good things they received from him, which were aggravating circumstances of their sins; what the evil was they did is next observed:

and served Baalim;
the idol Baal, as the Arabic version, of which there were many, and therefore a plural word is used; to which the apostle refers ( 1 Corinthians 8:5 ) ; for the word signifies "lords", and there were Baalpeor, Baalzebub, Baalberith and who seem to have their name from Bal, Bel, or Belus, a king of Babylon after Nimrod, and who was the first monarch that was deified, the Jupiter of the Heathens. Theophilus of Antioch ^F16 says, that, according to the history of Thallus, Belus the king of the Assyrians, whom they worshipped, was older than the Trojan war three hundred twenty two years; and that some call Cronus or Saturn Bel and Bal; by the Assyrians called Bel, and in the Punic or Phoenician language Bal ^F17.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Ad Autolyc. l. 3. p. 138, 139. Vid. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 23.
F17 Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. 1. prope finem.

Richtere 2:11 In-Context

9 En zij hem begraven hadden in de landpale zijns erfdeels, te Timnath-Heres, op een berg van Efraim, tegen het noorden van den berg Gaas;

10 En al datzelve geslacht ook tot zijn vaderen vergaderd was; zo stond er een ander geslacht na hen op, dat den HEERE niet kende, noch ook het werk, dat Hij aan Israel gedaan had.

11 Toen deden de kinderen Israels, dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, en zij dienden de Baals.

12 En zij verlieten den HEERE, hunner vaderen God, Die hen uit Egypteland had uitgevoerd, en volgden andere goden na, van de goden der volken, die rondom hen waren, en bogen zich voor die, en zij verwekten den HEERE tot toorn.

13 Want zij verlieten den HEERE, en dienden de Baal en Astharoth.