Judges 2:7

7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

Judges 2:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 2:7

And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all
the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
works of the Lord that he did for Israel.
] In Egypt, at the Red sea, in the wilderness, at the river Jordan, and in the land of Canaan; (See Gill on Joshua 24:31). The Jews ^F1 say, the elders died on the fifth of Shebet, which answers to part of January and part of February, on which account a fast was kept on that day.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2.

Judges 2:7 In-Context

5 They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill- country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.