Judges 2:6

And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Joshua	יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ ye.ho.Shu.a'	H3091	Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua) · proper noun, a man's name
people	הָעָ֑ם ha.'Am	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
go	וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח vay.sha.Lach	H7971	to send away · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
children	בְנֵֽי ve.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
went	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
man	אִ֥ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
inheritance	לְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ le.na.cha.la.To	H5159	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
possess	לָרֶ֥שֶׁת la.Re.shet	H3423	to occupy (by driving out previous tenants · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
land	הָאָֽרֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Joshua 24:28-31 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Joshua 22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

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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…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 2:6

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 2:6

And when Joshua had let the people go,.... This is not to be connected with what goes before, as if that was done in Joshua's lifetime; for during that, as is after testified, the people of Israel served the Lord; whereas the angel, in the speech to them before related, charges them with disobeying the voice of the Lord, making leagues with the inhabitants of the land, and not demolishing their altars, all which was after the death of Joshua; but this refers to a meeting of them with him before his death, and his dismission of them, which was either when he had divided the land by lot unto them, or when he had given them his last charge before his death, see Joshua 24:28; and this, and what…

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The Church Fathers

And Joshua sent the people away, and the children of Israel went every man to his house, and every one to his inheritance to occupy the land. There is no doubt that this is repeated here by recapitulation (Cf Jos 24,28). Because even the death of Josué Nave himself is mentioned even in this book (Cf Jc 2,8), to briefly insinuate all things as if from the beginning, when God granted them the land, and to indicate how they lived under the Judges or what they had to endure. And so it goes back to the order of the book of Judges, from the order that had first been established.
— Augustine of Hippo, QUESTIONS ON JUDGES, Q. 14 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

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Dictionary and topics

Bochim — Weepers, a place where the angel of the Lord reproved the Israelites for entering into a league with the people of the land. This caused them bitterly to weep, and hence the name of the place (Judg.…
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…

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Judges 2:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 2:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 2:6

John Gill on Judges 2:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Judges 2:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Judges 2:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 2:6

John Gill on Judges 2:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 2:6-10

Rashi on Judges 2:6