Judges 2:4
When the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people shouted and wept.
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5They called that place Bokim. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:6They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” It was there that Samuel decided disputes for the people of Israel and led the people.
Ezra 10:1As Ezra prayed and confessed, he wept and threw himself down before God's house. A very great assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered to him, for the people were weeping very greatly.
Jeremiah 31:9They will come weeping; I will lead them as they make their pleas. I will have them journey to streams of water 1 on a straight road. They will not stumble on it, for I will be a father to Israel, 1 and Ephraim will be my firstborn.” 1
Zechariah 12:10But I will pour out a spirit of compassion and pleading on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they will look on me, the one they have pierced. They will mourn for me, as one mourns for an only son; they will bitterly lament for him like those who lament the death of a firstborn son.
Luke 7:38As she stood behind him near his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with perfumed oil.
James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and cry! Let your laughter turn into sadness and your joy into gloom.
Matthew Henry on Judges 2:2-6
An Angel Rebukes the Israelites. ( b. c. 1425.) 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. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as… Read the whole commentary →