1 An angel rebukes the people at Bochim
6 The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua
14 God's anger and pity towards them
20 The Canaanites left to prove Israel

And an angel. or messenger Jud 6:12 13:3 Ge 16:7-10,13 22:11,12 48:16 Ex 3:2-6 14:19 23:20 33:14 Jos 5:13,14 Isa 63:9 Ho 12:3-5 Zec 3:1,2 Mal 3:1 Ac 7:30

Bochim Jud 2:5

I Made Ex 3:7,8 14:14 20:2 De 4:34 Ps 78:51-53 105:36-38

Have brought Ge 12:7 22:16,17 26:3,4 Jos 3:10 Ps 105:44,45

I will never Ge 17:7,8 Le 26:42 Nu 14:34 Ps 89:34 Jer 14:21 33:20,21 Zec 11:10

2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

and ye shall Ex 23:32,33 34:12-16 Nu 33:52,53 De 7:2-4,16,25,26 12:2,3 20:16-18 2Co 6:14-17

but ye have Jud 2:20 Ezr 9:1-3,10-13 Ps 78:55-58 106:34-40 Jer 7:23-28 2Th 1:8 1Pe 4:17

why have Ge 3:11,12 4:10 Ex 32:21 Jer 2:5,18,31-33,36

3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

I also said Jud 2:21 Nu 33:55 Jos 23:13

their gods Jud 3:6 Ex 23:33 34:12 De 7:16 1Ki 11:1-7 Ps 106:36

4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

the people 1Sa 7:6 Ezr 10:1 Pr 17:10 Jer 31:9 Zec 12:10 Lu 6:21 7:38 2Co 7:10 Jas 4:9

5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

Bochim. that is, weepers Ge 35:8 Jos 7:26

they sacrificed Jud 6:24 13:19 1Sa 7:9

6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

Joshua Jos 22:6 24:28

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.

the people Jos 24:31 2Ki 12:2 2Ch 24:2,14-22 Php 2:12

outlived. Heb. prolonged days after

8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

Joshua Jos 24:29,30

9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

Timnath-heres. This was his own inheritance; and Eusebius says it was celebrated in his time for the tomb of Joshua Jos 19:50 24:30

10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

A.M. cir. 2590. BC cir 1414 an.ex.is.cir 77. gathered Ge 15:15 25:8,17 49:33 Nu 27:13 De 31:16 2Sa 7:12 Ac 13:36

knew not Ex 5:2 1Sa 2:12 1Ch 28:9 Job 21:14 Ps 92:5,6 Isa 5:12 Jer 9:3 22:16 31:34 Ga 4:8,9 2Th 1:8 Tit 1:16

11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

did evil Jud 4:1 6:1 13:1 Ge 13:13 38:7 2Ch 33:2,6 Ezr 8:12

and served Baalim. Baalim, or lords, seems to have been the common appellation of the Syrian gods; whence we have Baal-peor, Baal-zebub, etc. Jud 3:7 10:6,10 1Sa 7:4 1Ki 18:18 2Ch 28:2 33:3 Jer 2:23 9:14 Ho 2:13-17

12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

forsook De 13:5 29:18,25 31:16,17 32:15 33:17

other gods Jud 5:8 De 6:14,15

bowed Ex 20:5 De 5:9

13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

served Jud 2:11 3:7 10:6 1Sa 31:10 1Ki 11:5,33 2Ki 23:13 Ps 106:36 1Co 8:5 10:20-22

14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

the anger Jud 3:7,8 10:7 Le 26:28 Nu 32:14 De 28:20,58 29:19,20 31:17,18 2Ch 36:16 Ps 106:40-42

he delivered 2Ki 17:20 2Ch 15:5

sold them Jud 3:8 4:2 Ps 44:12 Isa 50:1

could not Jud 1:19,34 Le 26:37 De 32:30 Jos 7:12,13 Ps 44:9,10 Jer 37:10

15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

against Jer 18:8 21:10 44:11,27 Mic 2:3

had said Le 26:15 De 4:25-28 28:15 Jos 23:15,16

had sworn De 32:40,41

greatly Jud 10:9 1Sa 13:6 14:24 30:6 2Co 4:8

16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

AM 2591-2909 BC 1413-1095. The Lord Jud 3:9,10,15 4:5 6:14 1Sa 12:11 Ac 13:20
Judges. The shophetim were not judges in the usual sense of the term; but were heads or chiefs of the Israelites, raised up on extraordinary occasions, who directed and ruled the nation with sovereign power, administered justice, made peace or war, and led the armies over whom they presided. Officers with the same power, and nearly the same name, were established in New Tyre, after the termination of the regal state; and the Carthaginian Suffetes, the Athenian Archons, and the Roman Dictators, appear to have been nearly the same. delivered. Heb. saved Ne 9:27 Ps 106:43-45

17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

they would 1Sa 8:5-8 12:12,17,19 2Ch 36:15,16 Ps 106:43

whoring Ex 34:15,16 Le 17:7 Ps 73:27 106:39 Ho 2:2 Re 17:1-5

quickly Ex 32:8 De 9:12,16 Ga 1:6

which their Jud 2:7 Jos 24:24,31

18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

then the Lord Ex 3:12 Jos 1:5 Ac 18:9,10

it repented Jud 10:16 Ge 6:6 De 32:36 Ps 90:13 106:44,45 Jer 18:7-10 Ho 11:8 Jon 3:10

their groanings. Ex 2:24 2Ki 13:4,22,23 Ps 12:5

19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

when the Jud 2:7 3:11,12 4:1 8:33 Jos 24:31 2Ch 24:17,18

corrupted or were corrupt. more Jer 16:12 Mt 23:32

ceased not from. Heb. let nothing fall of stubborn 1Sa 15:23 Ps 78:8 Jer 3:17 23:17

20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

the anger Jud 2:14 3:8 10:7 Ex 32:10,11 De 32:22

transgressed Ex 24:3-8 De 29:10-13 Jos 23:16 24:21-25 Jer 31:32 Eze 20:37

21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Jud 2:3 3:3 Jos 23:13 Eze 20:24

22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

through Jud 3:1-4

prove Ge 22:1 De 8:2,16 13:3 2Ch 32:31 Job 23:10 Ps 66:10 Pr 17:3 Mal 3:2,3

23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

left or suffered