The Book of Judges
Chapter 2:3
GNV Translation Ed. 1599
3 Wherefore, I said also, I will not cast them out before you, but they shall be as thorns unto your sides, and their gods shall be your destruction.
Brethren;
Is this not what we see today? Whereas we have turned our faces from Him, and have followed other passions in His stead, we have therefore planted and reaped our own miseries.
Study notes;
It was the privilege of Israel that they had not only a law in general sent them from heaven, once for all, to direct them into and keep them in the way of happiness, but that they had particular messages sent them from heaven, as there was occasion, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, when at any time they turned aside out of that way. Besides the written word which they had before them to read, they often heard a word behind them, saying, This is the way, (read Isaiah 30:21). The preacher was an angel of the Lord (See verse 1), not a prophet. his extraordinary messenger was sent to command, if possible, the greater regard to the message, and to affect the minds of a people whom nothing seemed to affect but what was sensible. The learned bishop Patrick is clearly of opinion that this was not a created angel, but the Angel of the covenant, the same that appeared to Joshua as captain of the hosts of the Lord, who was God himself. Joshua had lately admonished them to take heed of entangling themselves with the Canaanites, but they regarded not the words of a dying man; the same warning therefore is here brought them by the living God himself, the Son of God appearing as an angel. If they slight his servants, surely they will reverence his Son. (a)
Matthew Henry - 1662-1714
(a) Editor’s thought; Read Matthew 21:33-37
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