Judges 2:16

And LORD raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

In Context

15Wherever they went out, the hand of LORD was against them for evil, as LORD had spoken, and as LORD had sworn to them. And they were exceedingly distressed.

17And yet they did not hearken to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of LORD.

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Cross References

Judges 3:15But when the sons of Israel cried to LORD, LORD raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 4:5And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Judges 10:1And after Abimelech there arose Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, to save Israel, and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

Ruth 1:1And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

1 Samuel 14:48And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

Nehemiah 9:27Therefore thou delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. And in the time of their trouble, when they cried to thee, thou heard from heaven, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gave them saviors

Matthew Henry on Judges 2:7-23

The Idolatry of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1425.) 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord , that he did for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres,… Read the whole commentary →

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