Judges 2 (성경통독): As another generation grew up that didn’t know anything of God or the work he had done for Israel, people returned to their evil practices that ruined their relationships to God in earlier generations. The People of Israel did evil in God’s sight: they served Baal-gods; they deserted God, the God of their parents who had led them out of Egypt; they took up with other gods, gods of the peoples around them. Although God’s anger was hot against Israel as He handed them off to plunderers who stripped them,.,he sold them cheap to enemies on all sides.... He still had compassion on them . Hence, then God raised up judges who saved them from their plunderers. But they wouldn’t listen to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other gods—worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their parents, the road of obedience to God’s commands. They refused to have anything to do with it. As times passed so that the judge died, the people went right back to their old ways—but even worse than their parents!—running after other gods, serving and worshiping them. Stubborn as mules, they didn’t drop a single evil practice. And God’s anger blazed against Israel. Hence, He was not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. He’d rather use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God’s road and walk down it as their parents did. So we can see the constant on and off sinning habits of Israel toward God, who with mercy has shown compassion and patience throughout.
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Judges 2 (성경통독): As another generation grew up that didn’t know anything of God or the work he had done for Israel, people returned to their evil practices that ruined their relationships to God in earlier generations. The People of Israel did evil in God’s sight: they served Baal-gods; they deserted God, the God of their parents who had led them out of Egypt; they took up with other gods, gods of the peoples around them. Although God’s anger was hot against Israel as He handed them off to plunderers who stripped them,.,he sold them cheap to enemies on all sides.... He still had compassion on them . Hence, then God raised up judges who saved them from their plunderers. But they wouldn’t listen to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other gods—worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their parents, the road of obedience to God’s commands. They refused to have anything to do with it. As times passed so that the judge died, the people went right back to their old ways—but even worse than their parents!—running after other gods, serving and worshiping them. Stubborn as mules, they didn’t drop a single evil practice. And God’s anger blazed against Israel.
Hence, He was not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. He’d rather use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God’s road and walk down it as their parents did. So we can see the constant on and off sinning habits of Israel toward God, who with mercy has shown compassion and patience throughout.
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