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    Judges 2

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    Israel’s rescue has a remarkable expiry date: it lasts precisely as long as the judge does, and then the nation returns in worse condition than before.

    A weeping place-namevv. 1–5

    The angel of the LORD comes up from Gilgal to Bochim with a rebuke: the covenant was not to be broken, the altars were to be torn down, and yet the people had not obeyed. The consequence is delivered in a strikingly physical form: the remaining peoples will be thorns in Israel’s sides, and their gods a snare. Israel weeps together, and the place acquires its name from the sound of the congregation. There, rather remarkably, the tears are followed by sacrifices.

    The generation changesvv. 6–10

    Joshua dismisses the people, and they go off to their inheritances. Israel serves the LORD through Joshua and the elders who had seen the great works; then Joshua dies at 110 and is buried in his own land at Timnath-heres, north of Mount Gaash. After the whole generation has been gathered to its fathers, the next generation appears with the chapter’s abrupt and formidable description: it does not know the LORD or the works done for Israel.

    The judges and the relapsevv. 11–23

    The new generation serves the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and Israel is handed over to plunderers and enemies. Then the LORD raises judges, who save Israel; but Israel does not listen to them, and when a judge dies the corruption becomes worse than before. The whole arrangement has a grim rhythm: oppression, groaning, a judge, deliverance, the judge’s death, and a fresh descent. The nations left by Joshua therefore remain in place, both as consequence and as a test of whether Israel will walk in the way of the LORD.

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    1. Judg 2:1Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

    2. Judg 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

    3. Judg 2:3So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

    4. Judg 2:4When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

    5. Judg 2:5So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.

    6. Judg 2:6After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.

    7. Judg 2:7And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.

    8. Judg 2:8And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

    9. Judg 2:9They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

    10. Judg 2:10After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

    11. Judg 2:11And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

    12. Judg 2:12Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

    13. Judg 2:13for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

    14. Judg 2:14Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

    15. Judg 2:15Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.

    16. Judg 2:16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

    17. Judg 2:17Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

    18. Judg 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

    19. Judg 2:19But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

    20. Judg 2:20So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,

    21. Judg 2:21I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

    22. Judg 2:22In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

    23. Judg 2:23That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.

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    • 3Joshua 23:13know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
    • 3Numbers 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
    • 101 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
    • 10Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
    • 1Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 3Psalms 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
    • 10Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
    • 142 Kings 17:20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
    • 14Psalms 106:40–42So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
    • 18Deuteronomy 32:36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
    • 18Joshua 1:5No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
    • 19Judges 8:33And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
    • 22Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
    • 1Leviticus 26:42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
    • 1Exodus 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
    • 1Genesis 17:7–8I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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