Judges 2

2. There is but one omnipotent power. If there be two omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two; that which one would do, the other power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a confusion. If a ship should have two pilots of…

2. And when the persons in question are such as were regularly in Covenant in their infancy, by means of their parents covenanting for them, as the Reverend Author does acknowledge, how can their owning this Covenant, when they become adult, be justly counted a presuming to usur…

Mark, 'tis ingeminated for the more vehemency, that at the Sea, even at the red Sea, where they had seen the miracles of the Lord, and had experience of his glorious deliverance, that there they durst break out against God. See the contrary in Judges 2:7. Certainly the more rest…

The worship of Baal, Judges 2:11 — The progress of his worship under the reign of Ahab — Whether the oath-renouncing proclamation of Jehovah was affixed to the gates of Samaria — Baalim as a plural form — Whether Baal is a name common to several idols — Every image of Baal calle…

Ashtaroth is called the god of the Sidonians at (1 Kings 11:5, 33) — "god" rather than "goddess," since the Hebrews have no word to express a deity in the feminine gender. She is first mentioned at (Judges 2:18), and again at (Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:3). That this idol was worsh…

IV. Whoever he was, no one can doubt that he gave a notable specimen of defection from the principles of evangelical theology. Now from this impious mixture — which was the source and origin of the ecclesiastical defection that occurred first after the entrance of sin (Genesis 6…

First, they lifted up their voice and wept. The word is Baca, and from that, the place (Judges 2:5) is called Bochin, where the people are said to lift up their voice and weep, when the Angel reproved them. In Psalm 84:6, we read of the valley of Baca, which some translate, the…

Indeed, idolatry is very usually set forth in Scripture by some of those visible actions which some of these false worshippers used to express their devotion towards their false deities, as bowing the body to them (Joshua 23:16): Served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them.…

Influences in perseverance in the way of God, by God's counselling and leading, are here insinuated; and beside that a spiritual desire (v. 25): "Whom have I in Heaven but you? and in the Earth (there is) none I desire beside you." 15. Self-love is a note of apostates in the las…

Jacob in his journey would neither go to Laban, nor come from him, without a warrant. Jehoshaphat in the business of Ramoth-Gilead, would not stir a foot until he had counsel from God; he sends not only to the captain of the host, but to the prophet of the Lord, Inquire, I pray…

The less the thing is that might draw you, the greater the corruption of your heart, that like a mighty stream transports you to the practice; so that there is no reason to be rendered, but only the wretchedness of your own spirit, why you fall into such an evil. When the Lord c…

Jacob wept and prayed (Hosea 12:3). The people of Israel wept and offered sacrifice (Judges 2:5). Gospel-mourning puts a man upon duty; the reason is, because in true sorrow there is a mixture of hope, and hope puts the soul upon the use of means.

Both are false, as is evident, [illegible] they say in the issue what we say, and contradict themselves, to wit, that believers, and only believers, are these for whom Christ died. We before said, the promises are conditionally to all within the Visible Church, but so as the con…

Samuel would convince them of that very sin above the rest, of choosing them a king (1 Samuel 12), and thereupon they confessed it. So (Judges 2:2, 4) when they saw they had gone against God's charge, in that particular sin, that wounded them to the heart. So when our Savior wou…