Judges 2:16

And the Lord raised up judges, and the Lord saved them out of the hands of them that spoiled them: and yet they hearkened not to the judges,

Brenton Septuagint

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

15among whomsoever they went; and the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord spoke, and as the Lord sware to them; and he greatly afflicted them.

17for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them; and they turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked to hearken to the words of the Lord; they did not so.

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Cross References

Judges 3:15And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and he raised up to them a saviour, Aod the son of Gera a + 3:15 i. e. Benjamite.son of Jemeni, a man + 3:15 Or, able to use his left hand as his right. q. d. with two right hands.who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.

Judges 4:5And she sat under the palm-tree of Debbora between Rama and Bæthel in mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel went up to her for judgment.

Judges 10:1And after Abimelech Thola the son of Phua rose up to save Israel, being the son of + 10:1 i. e. Abimelech's.his father's brother, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Samir in mount Ephraim.

Ruth 1:1And it came to pass when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land: and a man went from Bethleem Juda to sojourn in the land of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

1 Samuel 14:48And he wrought valiantly, and smote Amalec, and rescued Israel out of the hand of them that trampled on him.

Nehemiah 9:27Then thou gavest them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to thee in the time of their affliction, and thou didst hear them from thy heaven, and in thy great compassions gavest them deliverers, and didst save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.

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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