Bible Chapter Summary
Judges 2 Summary
Israel's Apostasy and the Cycle of Judges
An angel of the LORD rebukes Israel at Bochim, declaring that because they made leagues with the Canaanites and did not destroy their altars, God will no longer drive out those nations, and their gods will be a snare to Israel. The chapter then recounts that after Joshua's death at age 110 and the passing of his generation, a new generation arose that did not know the LORD and turned to Baal and Ashtaroth, provoking God's anger and bringing oppression upon themselves. In response to their distress, the LORD repeatedly raised up judges who delivered the people, yet each time a judge died, Israel returned to idolatry and corrupted themselves even further than before. God therefore declared that He would leave the remaining nations as a test of whether Israel would keep His ways, and He did not deliver those nations hastily into their hands.
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Key verses
Judges 2:1
“And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.”
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.”
Judges 2:16
“Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.”
Judges 2:19
“And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.”
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