Judges 2:14 - Forerunner Commentary

Judges 2:14

12 and they ^aforsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed ^bother gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they ^cbowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

13 They forsook the Lord ^aand served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

14 ^aAnd the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He ^bdelivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and ^cHe sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they ^dcould no longer stand before their enemies.

15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had ^asworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.

16 Nevertheless, ^athe Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they ^aplayed the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so.

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God says that He sold the Israelites into the hands of their enemies. He had redeemed them—He had purchased them—from Egypt, but now that they had turned from Him, He sold them to those who would plunder them until such time that they repented. This is not the only time God uses this terminology of selling. It says this several more times in the book of Judges (Judges 3:8; 4:2; 10:7), and also in I Samuel 12:9 and Joel 3:6. So, we find another pattern of God when dealing with a rebellious people—He sells them.

Excerpted from The Time of Jacob's Trouble

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