Judges 2:16

Then Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who were stealing their possessions.

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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 Israel went out to fight, Yahweh's hand was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them and they were in terrible distress.

17Yet they would not listen to their judges. They were unfaithful to Yahweh and gave themselves like prostitutes to other gods and worshiped them. They soon turned aside from the way their fathers had lived—those who had obeyed the commandments of Yahweh—but they themselves did not do so.

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Cross References

Judges 3:15When the people of Israel called out to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up someone who would help them, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent him, with their tribute payment, to Eglon king of Moab.

Judges 4:5She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came to her to settle their disputes.

Judges 10:1After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man from Issachar who lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim, arose to deliver Israel.

Ruth 1:1It happened in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem of Judah went to the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

1 Samuel 14:48He acted with great courage and defeated the Amalekites. He rescued Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

Nehemiah 9:27So you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. In the time of their suffering, they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven, and because of your great mercies you sent them rescuers who rescued them out of the hand of their enemies.

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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