Judges 2:2

Judges 2:2

Israel’s Disobedience

1 Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: ^a“I led you up from Egypt and ^bbrought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and ^cI said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you.

2 And ^ayou shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ^byou shall tear down their altars.’ ^cBut you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?

3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be ^athorns in your side, and ^btheir gods shall be a ^csnare to you.’ ”

4 So it was, when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.

5 Then they called the name of that place¹ Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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The two articles of the covenant here specified (compare margin references) are those which the Israelites had at this time broken. The other important prohibition Deuteronomy 7:3 is not specified by the Angel, and this is an indication that at the time the Angel spoke, intermarriages with the pagan spoken of Judges 3:6 had not taken place; and this again is another evidence of the early date of this occurrence.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 2:2:**

Judges 1:1
Judges 2:3
Judges 3:6
Judges 6:8
Psalms 106:35
Romans 2:8

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