Judges 2:10 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Judges 2:10
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.
to know (properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
LORD
יְהוָ֔הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
works
הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔הha.ma.'a.Seh
H4639
an action (good or bad) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
done
עָשָׂ֖ה'a.Sah
H6213
to do or make · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Israel
לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽלle.Yis.ra.'El
H3478
Jisrael · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searchet…
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the…
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of th…
2 Samuel 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bow…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Judges 2:6–end
The beginning of this paragraph is only a repetition of what account we had before of the people's good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial (Jos 24:29, Jos 24:30), which comes in here again only to make way for the following account, which this chapter gives, of their degeneracy and apostasy. The angel had foretold that the Canaanites and their idols would be a snare to Israel; now the historian undertakes to show that they were so, and, that this may appear the more clear, he looks back a little, and takes notice, 1. Of their happy settlement in the land of Canaan. Joshua, having distributed this land among them, dismissed them to the quiet and comfortable…
And when Joshua had let the people go--This passage is a repetition of Jos 24:29-31. It was inserted here to give the reader the reasons which called forth so strong and severe a rebuke from the angel of the Lord. During the lifetime of the first occupiers, who retained a vivid recollection of all the miracles and judgments which they had witnessed in Egypt and the desert, the national character stood high for faith and piety. But, in course of time, a new race arose who were strangers to all the hallowed and solemnizing experience of their fathers, and too readily yielded to the corrupting influences of the idolatry that surrounded them.
John Gill on Judges 2:10
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers,.... Were dead and buried, that is, the greatest part of those that were contemporaries with the elders that outlived Joshua; for they might not be all dead, at least not all that came out of Egypt, and still less all that came into the land of Canaan; for, according to the computation of Ben Gersom, the time of Joshua and the elders were but twenty seven years; and there were no more than sixty seven years from their coming out of Egypt to this time; and no doubt there were men living of eighty years of age and more, but these might be but few:
and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord; so as to love…
After them came another generation that did not know the Lord or the things that he did for Israel. The author explained why he said that he did not know the Lord, that is, in those preclear and admirable works through which it happened before them that Israel knew the Lord.
And he sold them into the hands of his enemies around him. He usually wonders why it has been said: he sold, as if he had to understand that some price has been given. In a psalm it is also read: You sold your people for nothing (Sal 43,13). And the prophet says: You have been sold for nothing and you will be rescued without money. Why then does it say: sold, if they were "bucket" and "for nothing"? Why do not you say "donated"? Is it perhaps an expression of the Scriptures, in such a way that it could be called also sold to the one who is donated? Here the most acceptable sense of the phrases: You have been sold for nothing and you have sold your people for nothing, this is it: Those to whom you gave your people were ungodly; they did not deserve that, serving God, the people would be given to them in such a way that this cult would seem like the price. In relation to the other phrase: And you will be rescued without money, it is not said "for nothing", but without money, so that we understand that the price of the ransom is what the apostle Peter says: For you have only rescued with silver or with gold, but with a precious blood as of lamb without spot. When the prophet says: You will be rescued without money, in silver he understands all the money, because they would be rescued by the price of the blood of Christ and not by the price in cash. Nor will I again throw out of his presence any of the towns left by Joshua, son of Nave; and he left them to test Israel with them, whether or not they kept the way of the Lord to go for him, as his parents had kept him. And the Lord left these people so that he did not expel them quickly and did not deliver them into the hands of Joshua (Jc 2,21-23). The cause of Joshua not exterminating all those peoples with war is sufficiently demonstrated by these words of the Lord. If he had, there would be no villages for the Israelites to have been tested. They could be of use to them, if proven by them, they would not turn out to be reprobate and, once they were not reprobate, as the Lord had ordered them not to be, those peoples would be expelled from their presence if they lived there. And it would not be necessary for the Israelites to practice war. It must be noted that the words of the Lord reach here: Since these people have abandoned my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and they have not obeyed my voice,…
Dictionary and topics
Fast — The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old…
Baal · .The Israelites wickedly worshiped in the time of the — .The Israelites wickedly worshiped in the time of the
Ingratitude · OF MAN TO GOD — OF MAN TO GOD
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 2:6-10
The account of this development of the covenant nation, which commenced after the death of Joshua and his contemporaries, is attached to the book of Joshua by a simple repetition of the closing verses of that book (Jos 24:28-31) in Jdg 2:6-10, with a few unimportant differences, not only to form a link between Josha and Jdg 2:11, and to resume the thread of the history which was broken off by the summary just given of the results of the wars between the Israelites and Canaanites (Bertheau), but rather to bring out sharply and clearly the contrast between the age that was past and the period of the Israelitish history that was just about to commence. The vav consec. attached to וישׁלּח expres…
At Timnas Cheres. So entitled because a likeness of the sun11‘Timnas Serach’ is literally translated as ‘The likeness of the sun’. was placed over his grave, as if to say, "Alas, that a man who halted the sun12Yehoshua ordered the sun to stand still, and the sun obeyed. (Yehoshua, 10:12,13.) lies in the grave."
