Judges 2:11 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 2:11

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

BSB

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ASV

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim;

KJV

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And the children of Israel - Here begins the narrative of what really did happen “after the death of Joshua,” but of which Judg. 1 conveys no hint. Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua Jdg 2:7. But when Joshua was dead ... “the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and forsook the God of their fathers.” And then follows from Jdg 2:14 to the end of the chapter, a summary of the whole contents of the book.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

An attentive consideration of them, therefore, is of the greatest importance to a right understanding of the strange and varying phases of Israelitish history, from the death of Joshua till the establishment of the monarchy. served Baalim--The plural is used to include all the gods of the country.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ	vai.ya.'a.Su	and they did	H6213 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָרַ֖ע	ha.Ra'	the evil	H7451 →
בְּעֵינֵ֣י	be.'ei.Nei	in [the] eyes of	H5869 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיַּעַבְד֖וּ	vai.ya.'av.Du	and they served	H5647 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַבְּעָלִֽים׃	ha.be.'a.Lim	the Baals	H1168 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Judges 6:1
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:26–29
  But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Judges 2:19–20
  But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…
Through
Judges 8:33
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
leads to
- Judges 9:4
  So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
- Judges 9:46
  On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
- Judges 2:19
  But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…
Through
Judges 4:1
After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:3
  O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than…
Through
Judges 10:6
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus…
leads to
- 2 Kings 23:13
  The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh…
Through
Judges 3:7
So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
leads to
- Exodus 34:13
  Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

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