Judges 2:1-23 The Actions of the Generations After Joshua’s Passing

The Actions of the Generations After Joshua’s Passing

Judges 2:1-23    The Book of Judges [in Smaller Chunks]

An Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, & said, I made you go up out of Egypt, & have brought you into the land I [swore] to [give to] your [forefathers;] & I said, I will never break My covenant, [a.k.a. contract] with you.

You shall [not] make [any alliance] with the inhabitants of this land; & you shall [tear] down their altars, but you haven’t obeyed My voice. Why haven’t you done this? [Deuteronomy 12:2-3  You shall [totally] destroy all the places, [in which,] the nations you shall possess, served their gods, upon the: high mountains; hills; & under every green tree. And you shall: overthrow their altars; break their pillars; & burn their groves with fire. And you shall [cut] down the [carved] images of their gods, & destroy the names of them out of that place.]

[For this reason,] I also said that I won’t drive them, [a.k.a. those idolatrous nations,] out from before you, but they shall be [like] thorns in your sides, & their gods shall be a snare to [entrap] you. [Judges 3:6-7 And they took their daughters [of those nations,] to be their wives, & gave their [Israelite] daughters to their sons, & served their gods. And the children, [a.k.a. people,] of Israel, did evil in the sight of the Lord, & [forgot] the Lord their God, & served Baalim, & the groves.]

It [happened,] when the Angel of the Lord [spoke] these words to all the children, [a.k.a. people,] of Israel, the people lifted up their [voices] & wept. And they called the name of that place Bochim, & they sacrificed there to the Lord. And when Joshua had let the people go, every man [of] the [people] of Israel [left] & went to his inheritance to possess the land.

The people served the Lord all the days of [Joshua’s] [life,] & all the [lives] of the elders [who] outlived Joshua,who had seen all the great works, [a.k.a miracles,] of the Lord & that He did for Israel.

And Joshua, [Nun’s] son, the servant of the Lord, died [at] 110 years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in Mount Ephraim, on the North side of the [Mount] Gaash. All that generation were also gathered to their [forefathers, a.k.a. had all died.]

And there arose another generation after them, [that didn’t know] the Lord, nor the works, [a.k.a. miracles, that] He had done for Israel. And the children, [a.k.a. people,] of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, & served Baalim & they [abandoned] the Lord God of their [forefathers, Who] brought them out of the land of Egypt.

And [they] followed other gods, the gods of the people [who] were round about them & bowed themselves to them & provoked the Lord to anger. They [abandoned] the Lord & served Baal & Ashteroth.

And the [Lord’s] anger was hot against Israel, & He delivered them into the hands of the spoilers [who plundered] them, & He sold them into the hands of their enemies [around them,] so they could [no] longer stand before their enemies.

[Wherever] they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, & [like] the Lord had sworn to them, & [the Israelites] were [very] distressed.

[Deuteronomy 28:64-66 And the Lord shall scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth, even to the other. And there you shall serve other gods, [that] neither you, nor your [forefathers] have known, even [of] wood & stone.

And among these nations, you shall not find ease & neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But there, the Lord shall give you a: trembling heart; failing eyes; & a sorrowful mind. And your life shall hang in doubt before you. And you shall [be afraid] day & night. And [you] shall have [no] assurance of your life.]

[However] the Lord raised up judges, [who] delivered them out of the hands of those, [who plundered] them. [Still,] they wouldn’t [listen] to their judges, but they went & [played like the unfaithful harlot] after other gods & bowed themselves to them. [Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery & blood is [on] their hands & have committed adultery with their idols & have also caused their sons, whom they [bore] to Me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.]

They quickly turned out of the way, [a.k.a. were led astray from the path,] their [forefathers] walked in, [who] [obeyed] the commandments of the Lord, but they didn’t [do] so. And when the Lord raised up the judges [for] them, the Lord [God] was with the judge, & delivered [the Israelites] out of the hand of their enemies, all the days of the judge.

The Lord was [grieved,] because of their [groaning, because of those, who] oppressed & [harassed] them. It [happened,] when the judge was dead, [the Israelites] returned, & corrupted themselves more than their [forefathers, by] following other gods [& serving] them, [& bowing] down to them.

They [didn’t stop] from [doing this,] nor from their stubborn [ways.] The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel & He said,

Because this people [have sinned against] My covenant, [a.k.a. contract,] which I commanded their [forefathers,] & [they] haven’t [listened] to My voice, I will not also drive out any of the nations, before them, which Joshua left when he died.

That through [the other nations,] I may prove, [a.k.a. test,] Israel [& see] whether they will keep the [ways] of the Lord & walk, [a.k.a. follow, in them, like] their [forefathers kept] it, or not. Therefore, the Lord left those nations, without driving them out [quickly] & neither [did] He [deliver those nations] into the hand of Joshua.